Senior Backend Engineer, Security

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—to improve access to mobility while saving lives. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided millions of rider-only trips and has driven over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars? Join the Waymo Commercialization team, and help design the future of transportation. We are looking for a passionate SWE who wants to help build the systems that manage and optimize Waymo’s fleet management systems.

The ideal candidate is self-sufficient and product-minded, and will work on cross-cutting problems requiring strong cross-team collaboration—technically (security, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy)—to develop and deliver business-critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Help build and evolve one or more mission-critical commercialization tools and systems

• Collaborate with Product, Security, and other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve

• Solve hard, real-world problems such as vehicle profile, secure parts transactions, and vehicle configuration, and build key security infrastructure

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

• 7+ years of backend/infra experience

• Strong knowledge with security concepts (encryption, authentication, identity, secure communication protocols, access control)

We prefer

• Compiled language experience (C++, Java or Go)

• Experience building microservices

• Knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) concepts such as:

• X.509

• CSR generation and signing

• Certificate hierarchy

• secure key storage

• Knowledge of symmetric key generation, derivation and storage

• HSM / Hardware backed secure key generation and storage

• KDF - AES, HMAC

• End to end Secure key provisioning

• Knowledge of cryptography, including

• cryptographic key types

• cryptographic Algorithms

Salary and Benefits

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

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.

Salary Range

$204,000—$259,000 USD

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