• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in general distributed systems and backend development
• Proficient in C++, or a strong willingness to learn

Desirable

• The ride-hailing infrastructure team builds the backend software and software on the car to operate Waymo's autonomous vehicles as a commercial service. Our systems allow our vehicles to deliver people and goods safely and efficiently to their destinations
• We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like scalability, capacity planning, reliable communications, and vehicle routing, while collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, and product managers both on and off the car
• You will report to our Senior Manager of Software Engineering
• Every day at Waymo can be different, but here are a few examples of problems we are solving
• Optimize and determine the best price to achieve Waymo’s commercialization objectives
• Identify the optimal matching between trip requests and Waymo’s vehicles
• Intelligently position Waymo’s vehicles to improve the fleet utilization
• Deploy and execute the optimization results at real-time to our Waymo One ride hailing services
• While each day at Waymo is different, your primary responsibilities will include:
• Work with experts in the field of autonomous vehicles
• Implement and scale the backend for Waymo's ride-hailing services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; provides APIs to client apps and other services; calculates pickup and ride times; matches right vehicles to riders; calculates the price of rides
• Work closely with product data scientists to design and implement various optimizations in the area of matching and pricing for ride-hailing services
• Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems