SRE Manager, Vehicle Software

Wayve • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • $276,100 - $293,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

Our SRE teams build the software that brings Wayve’s autonomous-driving technology onto real vehicles. Their work connects onboard compute, sensors, networking, fleet operations and requires systems that can be deployed, monitored and recovered reliably as we expand across vehicle platforms and markets.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering-management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching and career development.
• 8+ years of experience building or operating complex production software, with depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems or a related field.
• Built or substantially reshaped an engineering team or capability, setting technical direction across teams, clarifying ownership and aligning partners around difficult trade-offs to deliver measurable results.
• Still write production-quality code, design systems and lead substantive code reviews. You have a strong technical judgment across Linux and distributed systems.
• Applied SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management and release-safety practices to deliver measurable improvements—not just restore service when something breaks.
• Build an inclusive team culture with clear accountability, thoughtful feedback and blameless learning from incidents.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive or other safety-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Interview, onboard and coach engineers, setting clear expectations and supporting their performance and career growth.
• Work with engineering managers and technical leads to review reliability risks, agree on ownership and prioritize the team’s work.
• Stay hands-on by designing solutions, writing production code and reviewing critical changes alongside your team.
• Lead technical investigations and incident reviews, turning findings into concrete fixes and follow-up work.
• Coordinate focused projects with Vehicle Software teams, helping them improve reliability while retaining ownership of their systems.
• Review reliability metrics and roadmap progress, adjusting priorities to reflect product milestones, fleet needs and operational risk.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs and results to engineering and company leaders.
• Building the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, including its charter, team structure, hiring plan, operating model and technical strategy.
• Reliability foundations for onboard software and the workflows that deploy, configure, start, monitor and recover it across vehicle platforms and markets.
• Service-level indicators and objectives, error budgets and production-readiness standards that give teams clear measures of system health and release readiness.
• Observability, health signals and diagnostic tools that help engineers understand failures across onboard compute, sensors, networking and vehicle data.
• Safer deployment and recovery through automated validation, release gates, smoke tests, rollback mechanisms and resilience testing.
• Incident-response workflows, runbooks, escalation paths and sustainable on-call practices that reduce repeat failures and speed up recovery.
• Automation and self-service tools that reduce manual operational work and help vehicle operations scale.

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: Manager