SRE Manager, Vehicle Software

Overview

In this role you will help build and lead Wayve’s Vehicle Software SRE function, ensuring reliable onboard software deployment, monitoring and recovery across vehicle platforms. You’ll partner with engineering leaders to shape reliability strategy, own incident response, and drive scalable operations for a growing fleet. You’ll code, review changes, and mentor engineers while turning incidents into durable fixes. This is a chance to shape the SRE culture for autonomous driving at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• salary benchmarked against market
• equity stake
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning & development budgets
• comprehensive health benefits and maternity/paternity leave

Responsibilities

• Interview, onboard and coach engineers and manage performance and career growth
• Review reliability risks with engineering managers and leads, align ownership and priorities
• Design solutions, write production code, and review critical changes with the team
• Lead technical investigations and incident reviews to implement concrete fixes
• Coordinate with Vehicle Software teams to improve reliability while maintaining ownership
• Review reliability metrics and roadmap progress, adjust priorities to fleet needs
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to engineers and leaders
• Build the Vehicle Software SRE team structure, charter, and operating model
• Establish reliability foundations and deployment/recovery workflows across platforms and markets
• Define SLIs/SLAs, error budgets, and production-readiness standards
• Develop observability, health signals, and diagnostic tools for onboard systems
• Implement automated validation, release gates, smoke tests, and rollback mechanisms
• Create incident-response runbooks, escalation paths, and sustainable on-call practices
• Develop automation and self-service tools to scale vehicle operations

Key requirements

• 3+ years of engineering-management experience with hiring and performance management
• 8+ years of experience building/operating complex production software with SRE/production engineering exposure
• Proven track record of building or reshaping an engineering team and setting technical direction
• Hands-on production-quality coding and leading code reviews
• Strong technical judgement across Linux and distributed systems
• Experience applying SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management, release safety)
• Commitment to inclusive team culture with accountability and blameless learning
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Bonus: experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems

• strong leadership and people management
• clear communication of decisions and trade-offs
• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Linux
• distributed systems
• SRE/production engineering

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