Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Engineer

Overview

Join Wayve to help ensure reliable, observable and scalable operations for autonomous vehicle software and fleet systems. In this role you will monitor live health, investigate incidents end-to-end, and drive improvements across software, infrastructure and fleet operations. You will build automation to reduce manual work and speed up detection and remediation, shaping designs to eliminate recurring pain points. This position offers ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and the chance to impact safety and efficiency on public roads.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salaries benchmarked annually
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive benefits: health insurance, dental, enhanced parental leave, retirement plan, wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health using logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards; identify issues before they impact operations
• Investigate incidents end-to-end, form hypotheses, analyze data and drive mitigation to root cause
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to post-incident reviews
• Collaborate with multiple teams to prevent recurring failures
• Develop tools and automation to reduce manual operational work and accelerate issue detection and resolution
• Improve monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs and remediation workflows
• Influence system design to address recurring operational pain points across software, infrastructure, networking and fleet operations

Key requirements

• Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or similar role for live production systems
• Strong programming in Python, C++ or Rust
• Solid Linux fundamentals; experience with cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Splunk
• Ability to explain SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems across software, networking, OS and hardware-adjacent environments
• Collaborative, detail-oriented approach to incident response and continuous improvement

• collaborative
• detail-oriented
• strong communication
• Python
• C++
• Rust

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