Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Engineer

Overview

In this role you will strengthen the reliability of Wayve’s live autonomous vehicle operations by building resilient, observable systems. You’ll work across vehicle software, backend services, infrastructure and fleet operations to prevent incidents and speed resolution. You’ll craft tooling and标准 processes to detect and fix issues at speed, contributing to safer, more efficient on-road performance. This is a hands-on, impact-focused position with ownership over reliability at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against market
• Equity and ownership
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, maternity/paternity leave)

Responsibilities

• Monitor live system health via logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards; identify issues before they affect operations
• Investigate incidents end-to-end, develop hypotheses, analyze data and drive mitigation to root cause
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to post-incident reviews
• Build tools and automation to reduce manual ops and accelerate detection and remediation
• Develop meaningful SLIs/SLOs and improve monitoring/alerting
• Create automated checks and remediation workflows
• Influence system design to address recurring operational pain points across software, infrastructure, networking and fleet operations

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar role supporting live production systems
• Proficient in Python, C++ or Rust; strong Linux fundamentals
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers and Kubernetes
• Understanding of observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Splunk) and concepts like SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems across software, networking and hardware-adjacent environments
• Collaborative, detail-oriented approach to incident response and continuous improvement

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

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