Site Reliability Engineer, Vehicle Software

Overview

In this role you help keep Wayve’s autonomous vehicles operating safely by building and improving the reliability tooling and incident management stack. You work closely with field engineers, software teams, and operations to diagnose reliability issues and speed recovery. You’ll debug across Linux and vehicle data, shaping SRE practices for vehicle-centric systems as Wayve scales with partners. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position with real-world safety and production implications.

Pay / Benefits

• salary benchmarked annually
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits

Responsibilities

• Build and improve tooling, automation, observability, and incident-management processes for vehicle software reliability
• Collaborate with field engineers, software teams, and operations to diagnose reliability issues and enhance system performance
• Conduct hands-on debugging across Linux, logs, metrics, traces, and vehicle/production data
• Develop reliability improvements that reduce manual interventions and accelerate issue detection, triage, and recovery
• Support vehicle-centric operations, including safety-operator tools and reliability for customer/partner programs
• Define and implement SRE approaches for vehicle-centric systems as Wayve expands with OEM partners

Key requirements

• Production-quality code in Python, C++, or Rust
• Strong Linux and systems-level debugging, log tracing, and root-cause analysis
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, networking, distributed systems, databases, and observability/incident-management tooling (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Humio)
• Independent diagnosis and end-to-end problem resolution in production or operational environments
• Effective cross-team communication with engineering, operations, and field teams
• Willingness to be onsite in Sunnyvale at least three days a week
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, telemetry, or safety-critical environments is a plus
• Open to applicants who do not meet every requirement but are eager to learn

• Strong communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem-solving mindset
• Python, C++, or Rust production code
• Linux debugging and system-level troubleshooting
• Observability/monitoring tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Humio)

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