Technical Lead Manager, Release Health

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.

• Lead and manage the Behavior Test Engineering’s Release Health Team, including hiring, setting OKRs and guiding work, and developing your team's careers
• Participate effectively in the on‑call rotation, and automate Waymo's testing pipelines to be more resilient, reliable, and scalable
• Lead technical work — work with SREs, Test engineers and SWE partners to develop and set the technical direction and architectural guidelines for Waymo's long‑tail behavioral testing suite

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience navigating a critical and horizontal space
• 6+ years of industry experience in reliability engineering or production systems
• 1+ years of management experience
• The ability to lead a technical engineering team and deliver impact while managing the team effectively
• Demonstrated ability as an individual contributor engineer
• Ability to be in an on‑call rotation

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or similar)
• A demonstrated track record of aligning reliability engineering culture and goals with overall business level objectives and priorities
• A demonstrated ability to engage deeply on technical issues the company and your team will face

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

$230,000—$292,000 USD