Software Engineer III, Technical Infrastructure, Waze

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience in software development with software design, architecture, and shipping production-grade systems.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Java and building production-grade back-end services and distributed systems.
• Experience with public cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
• Experience with leading technical projects from design to completion, with excellent architectural and system design skills.
• Experience with developer productivity, tooling, and building infrastructure.
• Experience with build systems (e.g., Gradle, Bazel), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and other developer-focused tooling.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multiple engineering teams.
  
  

About the jobGoogle's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Waze Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team is the multiplier for all of Waze engineering.

In this role, you will design, build, and own the foundational systems that empower developers to ship with speed, quality, and confidence. You will be maintaining systems and leading the charge on Waze's technical initiatives.Waze is where people and technology meet to solve transportation challenges. It's a platform that empowers users to contribute road data and edit Waze maps to improve the way we move about the world. As the social navigation pioneer, Waze leverages mobile technology and a passionate global community to redefine expectations of today’s maps.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain back-end services and libraries, primarily in the Java ecosystem, that form the support of the development environment.
• Take ownership of components within technical initiatives, such as the company-wide migration to Google3 or the rollout of new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered developer tools.
• Deploy and manage mission-critical services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Waze to understand their pain points, gather requirements, and deliver solutions that make their workflows faster and more efficient.
• Work with Java, Python and Google's internal tooling to select the right technology for the job.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .