# Senior Software Engineer, Mission Planning

**Company:** [Waymo](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/waymo)
**Location:** Warsaw, Poland
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Other
**Listed:** 2026-09-21

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/waymo/senior-software-engineer-mission-planning-8211732)

## What you'll do

- Build and evolve mission-critical infrastructure and tooling
- Collaborate with engineering teams on systems and processes
- Scale systems to meet commercial expansion demands
- Solve real-world problems including world simulation for regression testing

## What you need

- 5+ yrs backend or infrastructure experience
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with C++
- Experience working with nontechnical team members
- Experience with operations or developer tooling

## Job description

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.

Join our Waymo Mission Planning team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.

You are someone who is product-minded. You will work on cross-cutting problems to require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

**You will:**

-   Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling that underpins all commercialization systems
    
-   Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve
    
-   Help scale our systems to meet the demands of commercial expansion and growing complexity
    
-   Solve hard, real-world problems such as world simulation for regression testing and evaluation of software services managing fleets for autonomous vehicles
    

**You have:**

-   BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
    
-   5+ years of backend or infrastructure experience
    

**We prefer:**

-   Experience with C++ (or a Willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge)
    
-   Experience working in environments including nontechnical team members
    
-   Experience with operations tooling, developer productivity, or developer tools
    

#LI-Hybrid

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