Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet

Overview

As Engineering Manager for the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE, you lead a small, high-impact team focused on safety, availability and reliability of Wayve’s autonomous vehicle fleet in Japan. You own the team’s people, roadmap and operational outcomes, while remaining hands-on when complex problems arise. You will shape observability, incident response and tooling to reduce toil and improve on-road performance. This role offers meaningful cross-functional impact with global Vehicle Software and partner teams, in a mission to universalize autonomous driving.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salaries
• equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working model
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive health benefits and enhanced parental leave

Responsibilities

• Build, coach and retain a high-performing team, including hiring, performance management and career development
• Improve on-road availability, detection and recovery, reduce repeat incidents and strengthen rollout reliability
• Lead high-severity incidents and drive blameless reviews to durable improvements
• Set technical direction for observability, SLI/SLOs, production readiness, release safety and fleet tooling
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to move new vehicles and capabilities into stable operations
• Represent Japan priorities in global roadmaps and communicate risks to stakeholders

Key requirements

• Engineering-management experience with responsibility for a software/SRE/platform team
• Proven track record leading 5–10 engineers or equivalent multidisciplinary groups
• Mastery of reliability engineering, observability, incident management and continuous improvement
• Strong depth in design review, debugging, automation, code review and production systems
• Experience owning roadmaps, resourcing, dependencies and measurable delivery outcomes
• Experience hiring, coaching and developing talent with psychological safety
• Calm, structured judgment during incidents and clear risk communication
• Willingness to work onsite in Yokohama area and participate in escalation rotations
• Eligibility to work in Japan or employer-supported immigration where applicable

• calm, structured judgment
• clear communication with technical and operational stakeholders
• psychological safety and teamwork
• reliability engineering and incident management
• observability and SLI/SLOs
• production readiness and release safety

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