Senior Software Engineer, Data and Orchestration

Overview

In this role, you design and evolve Wayve’s data pipeline and orchestration platform to handle next-generation autonomous driving data. You’ll revamp the Harness system and build a DAG-based workflow platform, enabling scalable, reliable, and accessible data processing across teams. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to define pipelines that drive high-priority data runs, batch inference, and evaluations, while focusing on reliability and cost-effective performance. This is a hands-on, impact-oriented opportunity to shape a critical data infrastructure at Wayve.

Pay / Benefits

• salary benchmarked against market
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive health insurance and dental; enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve scalable data pipeline and orchestration infrastructure for the next-generation autonomous driving data platform
• Revamp the existing Harness system and develop a new DAG-based workflow platform
• Build tooling and libraries to simplify ingestion, processing, inference and evaluation workflows across teams
• Ensure hundreds of parallel pipeline steps run with correct outputs, no conflicts and prioritized resources
• Support batch inference and performance optimisation for cost-effective, scalable evaluations
• Improve platform reliability, quality and usability, including incident response workflows aligned to business-defined SLOs

Key requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Production-grade systems design and maintenance
• Solid Python programming skills
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems or high-throughput data processing
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices (unit/integration tests, TDD, data-driven development)
• Familiarity with distributed event streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka)
• Understanding of database principles and distributed data systems (Postgres, ClickHouse)
• Experience collaborating with platform users and partner teams to deliver scalable solutions

• Cross-functional collaboration
• User-focused problem solving
• Communication with partner teams
• Python programming
• Distributed systems / data pipelines
• Apache Kafka

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