Staff Software Engineer Engineer, Model Development Platform

Highlights

• Own cloud services powering Wayve's AI model lifecycle from training to road testing.
• Build secure, reliable foundations that let researchers ship driving models safely.
• Shape platform direction with tech leads to align engineering with company goals.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity, sharing in long-term success
• Relocation support
• Learning and development budgets with support for training and conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance and dental
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Retirement or pension where applicable
• Access to therapists and wellbeing partnerships

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader with deep distributed-systems experience who loves building secure, reliable platforms. You thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and enjoy mentoring while aligning platform work to research goals.

Requirements

• 7+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms or developer platforms, including at senior or staff level
• Proven ability to design and operate scalable microservice architectures on a major cloud provider
• Strong grounding in API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows and distributed-systems fundamentals
• Hands-on experience implementing authentication and authorization (e.g. OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC)
• Experience driving reliability improvements, defining SLAs/SLOs, and building observable, highly available systems
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and safe release and rollback strategies
• Ability to write and review production-quality code in Python or TypeScript, with understanding of React and micro-frontends