Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vehicle SW at Wayve

Wayve

London·9h ago

SeniorFull-timePythonRustC++AWSGCPAzureKubernetesDockerCI/CDAI

Salary Range

$99,450 - $134,550 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join Wayve, the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. This role focuses on keeping Wayve’s autonomous driving fleet reliable, observable, and safe while it operates on public roads.

Key Responsibilities

→Own and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of vehicle software systems used across the dev fleet.
→Take part in a team on-call rotation, providing out-of-hours support for live systems when required.
→Build and operate monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling that enables fast detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
→Drive incident response and post-incident learning, translating root causes into durable fixes and preventative controls.
→Design and deliver automation for fleet operations, deployments, and repetitive workflows to reduce manual intervention.
→Partner closely with Vehicle SW, operations, and platform teams to define SLOs, reliability metrics, and release readiness.
→Continuously harden the production environment through capacity planning, change management, and reliability-focused reviews.

Requirements

✓Proven experience in an SRE, production reliability, or platform operations role for complex distributed systems.
✓Strong Linux fundamentals and hands-on experience with CI/CD, containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
✓Proficiency in at least one systems or scripting language (Python, C++, or Rust) with a bias for automation.
✓Deep troubleshooting skills across networking, distributed systems, and databases, including performance and availability issues.
✓Experience designing observability stacks and using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Humio.
✓Clear communication skills, including incident leadership, writing postmortems, and influencing engineering priorities.