Site Reliability Engineer, Vehicle Software

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

6d • $209,700 - $238,250 • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Vehicle Software Engineering team builds and operates the software that keeps Wayve’s autonomous vehicles running safely in the real world. Within it, the Tools & Infrastructure team owns the reliability stack for vehicle software: observability, incident management, operator tooling, and the automation that lets engineering and operations detect and resolve issues faster. As Wayve scales its autonomous vehicle programs with OEM partners this team is defining what SRE looks like for vehicle-centric systems from the ground up.

Requirements

• You write production-quality code every day in Python, C++, or Rust
• You’re comfortable debugging at the Linux and systems level, reading logs, tracing failures, and finding root cause in complex environments
• You have experience with CI/CD, containerisation, networking, distributed systems, databases, and observability/incident-management tooling such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Humio or similiar
• You’ve diagnosed complex production or operational systems independently, seeing problems through to resolution rather than just escalating
• You communicate well across engineering, operations, and field teams, and know when to bring others in
• You can be onsite in Sunnyvale at least three days a week to work alongside the field teams you’ll support

Nice To Haves

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, large-scale telemetry, or safety-critical environments is a plus, though not required

Responsibilities

• Building and improving tooling, automation, observability, and incident-management processes for vehicle software reliability
• Partnering closely with field engineers, software teams, and operations to diagnose reliability issues and improve system performance
• Owning hands-on debugging across Linux, low-level systems, logs, metrics, traces, and vehicle and production data
• Developing reliability improvements that reduce manual intervention and make issue detection, triage, and recovery faster
• Supporting vehicle-centric operations, including safety-operator tools and the reliability needs of our customer and partner programmes

Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more

What This Job Offers

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