Backend Engineer

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.

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 someone who can be self-sufficient and product-minded. You will be working on cross-cutting problems that will require strong cross-team collaboration, both technically (security, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.

You will:

• 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, vehicle configuration and build key security infrastructure.

You have:

• 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