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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
Waymo LLC · 🇺🇸 Mountain View, CA, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Waymo LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles182 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $200k–$240k, median $205k. Most were filed at wage level II (66%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. As SRE (Uber tech Lead) UTL, you will play a key role in driving the reliability, performance, and resilience of our most critical services. You’ll lead the strategy and execution for observability, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of our global scale production systems. You will be accountable for the response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered during the operation of our most critical systems. This includes both spearheading timely investigations and resolutions, as well as proactively partnering with engineering to evolve our software system to enhance their robustness and adaptability.This unique role encompasses our commercialisation services along with our planet scale software delivery systems, both of which underpin our rapidly growing and evolving fleet of autonomous vehicles operating in multiple cities. The challenges of ensuring reliability at our scale and pace is unprecedented. If you are a hands-on SRE tech lead, with strong software engineering skills, who is passionate about solving first-of-their-kind problems with significant real-world planet scale impact, we'd like to meet you. This is a hybrid role and reports to the Head of Site Reliability Engineering. You will: • Drive incident response processes, retrospectives, and continuous improvement to prevent recurring issues. Organize and participate in on call rotations for release oriented outages, along with disaster recovery planning and business continuity • Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running our most critical release processes • Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events encountered during our development analysis cycle. • Champion a culture of reliability engineering across the organization, including partnering with organization leads and others across the Onboard, Eval and Simulator organization to educate and improve large-scale software engineering best practices. • Contribute to system software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability You have: • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • 15+ years of experience working on large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems • 15+ years on hands on coding experience with C++ • Experience organizing and running oncall rotations • Excellent influence without authority skills • Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team • Deep expertise in architecting large scale distributred systems, observability tools, monitoring systems, and incident management practices • Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations at scale • Proficiency with automation, infrastructure and modern DevOps/SRE tooling • Track record of improving system reliability through data-driven approaches and systematic problem-solving W