2 months ago
Germany (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of vehicle software systems used across the development fleet.
- Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation for live systems.
- Build and operate monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling for rapid detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
- Lead incident response and post-incident learning, converting root causes into durable fixes and preventative controls.
- Design and deliver automation for fleet operations, deployments, and repetitive workflows.
- Partner with Vehicle Software, operations, and platform teams to define SLOs, reliability metrics, and release readiness.
- Improve production environments through capacity planning, change management, and reliability-focused reviews.
Requirements
- Proven experience in an SRE, production reliability, or platform operations role supporting complex distributed systems.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, C++, or Rust, with an emphasis on automation.
- Deep troubleshooting experience across networking, distributed systems, and databases, including performance and availability issues.
- Experience designing observability stacks and using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Humio.
- Clear communication skills, including incident leadership, postmortem writing, and influencing engineering priorities.
- Cloud platform experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including infrastructure-as-code and secure production operations, is desirable.
- Experience with real-time or safety-critical systems, hardware-in-the-loop, embedded or robotics environments, fleet operations, telemetry pipelines, edge devices, or SLO/SLI programs is desirable.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid role based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a minimum of three office days per week.
- Hybrid working combines time in offices and workshops with time working from home.
- Inclusive interview experience with accommodations or adjustments available upon request.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Wayve
Wayve builds end-to-end autonomous driving software—the vehicle-agnostic Wayve AI Driver—that runs on onboard compute and native sensors, licensed to automakers and fleet operators. Its platform spans ADAS and higher autonomy (L2+/L3 to robotaxi) and is designed to generalize across vehicle types and geographies. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, it tests its models across Europe, North America, and Japan, with a U.S. base in Sunnyvale, CA.