Senior Network Engineer

About Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.The Digital Transformation team/Waymo Infrastructure and Networking services team - defines and builds the business IT architecture that supports the commercial operation of Waymo's autonomous fleet. The team stands at the intersection of finance, operations and IT; through creative architecture, expertise and attention to detail, it ensures that Waymo has world-class capabilities across all its business processes.In this hybrid role, you will report to the Head of IT and Digital Transformation.

What You'll Do

• Design and Planning: Create and review Engineering Design Plans (EDPs) for specific sites, ensuring strict alignment with company design guidelines.
• Procedure Management: Validate, implement, and maintain Method of Procedures (MOPs) to guide both internal teams and external implementation partners.
• Network Deployment & Configuration: Deploy and configure essential network devices, including firewalls, switches, access points, and UPS systems.
• Architecture & Strategy: Contribute to and collaborate on strategic enhancements and alternatives for the company’s network architecture.
• Monitoring & Issue Resolution: Proactively monitor network performance dashboards to triage and resolve issues, taking full ownership of network-related tickets to ensure timely resolution.
• Advanced Support & Troubleshooting: Provide Tier 2 expert support and efficiently resolve escalations from the NOC, focusing on diagnosing root causes for complex network events within distributed and cloud-native systems.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of working experience in information technology infrastructure management and service delivery.
• 5+ years of LAN, WAN, WLAN, Mobility wireless design and implementation.
• 5+ years of Network capacity planning, security principles, and management best practices.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams in coordination with a technical project manager, overseeing vendors and network integrators.
• Working technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards.
• Experience installing and troubleshooting wireless and/or optical networks.

We Prefer

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Able to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment using Google workspace tools.
• Familiarity with network automation tools in CI/CD environment; such as Terraform, Ansible, or Python.

Key skills/competency

• Senior Network Engineer
• Network Design
• Network Deployment
• Network Configuration
• Network Architecture
• Network Monitoring
• Network Troubleshooting
• Firewalls
• Switches
• Wireless Networks