Software Engineer III, Technical Infrastructure, Waze

our company'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 our companys 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 todays maps.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain back-end services and libraries, 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 our company3 or the rollout of new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered developer tools.
Deploy and manage mission-critical services on our company Cloud Platform (GCP) using technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring high availability and performance.
Collaborate with engineering teams across Waze to understand their issues, gather requirements, and deliver solutions that make their workflows efficient.
Work with Java, Python and our company's internal tooling to select the right technology for the job.