Site Reliability Engineer (Vehicle Software)

• As a Site Reliability Engineer at Wayve, you will work across the full reliability stack for our vehicle software: observability, incident management, operator tooling, and the automation that lets engineering and operations teams detect, triage, and resolve issues faster

• You will work closely with software engineers, field engineers, and operations, debugging real systems, improving real processes, and having direct impact on how our vehicles perform in production

• Wayve is scaling its autonomous vehicle programs with partners, and you will help shape the SRE approach for vehicle-centric systems as that happens

• This is not a role where reliability sits on top of the real work, it is central to it

• Build and improve tooling, automation, observability, and incident-management processes for vehicle software reliability

• Work closely with field engineers, software teams, and operations to diagnose reliability issues and improve system performance

• Own hands-on debugging across Linux, low-level systems, logs, metrics, traces, and vehicle and production data

• Develop reliability improvements that reduce manual intervention and make issue detection, triage, and recovery faster

• Support vehicle-centric operations, including safety-operator tools and the reliability needs of our customer and partner programs

Benefits

• Private healthcare: Choose our optional health insurance for comprehensive coverage for you and your family.

• Paid time off: Paid vacation plus public holidays and additional leave programs, ensuring you have time to unwind.

• Mental health resources: Through Spill, you can access therapy and mental health support.

• Community and socials: Join clubs or attend team socials to connect over hobbies, sports, or just for fun.

• Competitive compensation: Our compensation package includes cash and equity, making you a true partner in our success.

• Learning and development: Budgets for books, courses, and company-wide training to support your continuous growth.- Based in Sunnyvale and able to be onsite at least three days a week to work alongside the field teams you will support

• You will write production-quality code every day in Python, C++, or Rust. This is a software engineering role as much as a reliability role, and coding is central to the work

• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, networking, distributed systems, databases, and observability and incident-management tooling, including DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Humio

• The communication skills to work effectively across engineering, operations, and field teams, and the judgment to know when to bring others in

• Comfortable debugging at the Linux and systems level, reading logs, tracing failures, and finding root cause in complex environments

• Experience diagnosing complex production or operational systems, not just escalating, but seeing problems through to resolution

• We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, or safety-critical environments. We know this is rare, and it is not a barrier to applying

• Experience with large-scale telemetry or high-volume data pipelines

• Familiarity with vehicle-centric or on-device software systems