Founding Staff SRE — AI Infrastructure & GPU Cloud

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve, a London-based AI robotics company, is hiring a Staff Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to help found and scale the reliability foundations of our AI cloud platform.

You will own the Model Dev Platform and GPU Compute environments, define production standards, and lead incident response, observability, and automation efforts to ensure resilient, high-performance systems across multi-tenant clusters.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an SRE/Production Engineer/Cloud Reliability role.
• Experience operating GPU-backed environments or large-scale ML infrastructure.
• Experience running model training or inference pipelines in production (MLOps).
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including operating production clusters.
• Hands-on experience running production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience operating complex distributed systems in production, ideally with compute-heavy workloads.
• Experience with large compute clusters and AI/ML workloads is preferred.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting or systems language with automation bias.
• Experience designing observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Clear communication: incidents, postmortems, reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of the Model Dev Platform and GPU Compute environments.
• Define and operationalise SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across platform services.
• Improve capacity planning, scaling strategies, and resource efficiency across large GPU-backed clusters.
• Partner with ML, platform, and software teams to establish production readiness standards.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for cloud and cluster incidents.
• Lead incident triage, escalation, and root-cause analysis; implement durable improvements.
• Design and operate monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems for rapid recovery.
• Build dashboards reflecting real user-centric platform health and reliability.

Skills

SRE experience

Production engineering

Cloud reliability

Linux fundamentals

Troubleshooting skills

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Wayve, a London-based AI robotics company, is hiring a Staff Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to help found and scale the reliability foundations of our AI cloud platform.

You will own the Model Dev Platform and GPU Compute environments, define production standards, and lead incident response, observability, and automation efforts to ensure resilient, high-performance systems across multi-tenant clusters.