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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 51 days Waymo's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Waymo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Waymo
- high 348 stale, 9 reposted of 353 open
- Hiring momentum
- 490 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Waymo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Waymo.
About this role
In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain high-throughput distributed backend components and services that support Waymo's Commercialization Data Lake. You will manage the ingestion of data from telemetry and logs, build data pipeline services, and implement compliance and security infrastructure. Collaboration with data engineers and product data scientists will be essential to ensure platform consistency and operational standards.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Waymo as an employer.
What you need
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, databases, and production monitoring
- Excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, and fundamental software design principles
- Advanced proficiency in C++ and SQL for high-throughput batch and streaming processing pipelines
- Prior experience running data pipelines through hardened release setups (Canarying, Staging environments, Automated Rollbacks)
Nice to have
- Extensive experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop, Flume)
- Experience in building and maintaining Data Warehouse / Data Lake systems
- Experience integrating Data Governance, Privacy, or Compliance layers into core infrastructure
- High proficiency with Google-internal pipeline/data stacks (Flume, SQLP, Rapid, CAS, F1)
What you get
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
Worth weighing
- Salary range provided but actual pay depends on various factors; specifics will be discussed during hiring process
- Hybrid work schedule mentioned, but details on remote work flexibility are not specified
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Listed by Waymo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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