Senior Software Engineer — Release Infrastructure & Data

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are at a pivotal moment in our engineering journey. As we prepare to deploy our autonomous vehicle technology to our first production customer, establishing a rock-solid, auditable, and scalable release lifecycle is our top priority.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to partner closely with the Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to architect our Release and Test Infrastructure. While the TLM guides the team's overall execution, roadmap, and people management, you will act as a senior technical pillar, taking complete ownership of designing and leading complex infrastructure domains.
Our testing ecosystem is inherently multi-modal. You will design the systems that track our software lifecycles, ingest massive amounts of test telemetry across diverse environments—Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL), and Model-in-the-Loop (MIL)—and make it queryable to drive critical release decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and building backend systems, data pipelines, or internal developer platforms at scale.
• Experience designing unified data models or manifest contracts that abstract away underlying execution environments, ensuring traceability across highly diverse hardware and software platforms.
• A track record of writing high-quality, production-grade code (readable, tested, well-documented, and maintainable).
• Experience designing immutable, highly traceable systems where auditability is a core feature, not an afterthought.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud concepts (storage, compute orchestration, IAM, networking) and how to design cost-effective data flows.
• Experience building or contributing to test automation frameworks and CI-quality practices (repeatable, scalable, measurable tests).
• Strong familiarity with Linux (system tooling, networking basics, troubleshooting).
• Excellent Communicator: You can explain complex architectural trade-offs to both software engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and partner effectively with engineering leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics, or hardware-tech industries.
• Experience working directly with HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) or vehicle log ingestion.
• Familiarity with automotive compliance standards (e.g., ISO 26262) or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Dagster).
• Familiarity with relational data modeling at scale (e.g., advanced PostgreSQL).

Responsibilities

• Act as a key senior Individual Contributor (IC), owning the architecture for data pipelines and release traceability, and collaborate with the TLM to shape the long-term technical roadmap.
• Design high-volume data pipelines that ingest results from diverse sources with equal fidelity, ensuring unified tracking across physical rigs and cloud simulations.
• Design systems that handle both Direct Storage for critical hardware logs and Federated Strategies (external referencing) for massive cloud simulation datasets.
• Build pipeline components and backend services in Python, writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Integrate your data architectures with our cloud infrastructure (partnering with our dedicated infra team) and our existing CI/CD execution pipelines (Buildkite and GitHub Actions).
• Implement operational tooling to support pipeline health, and set up the modeling required to build clear dashboards for release readiness and compliance tracking.
• Guide and upskill a team of strong Python automation and test engineers, teaching them how to interact with modern data pipelines and cloud services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed