Platform Engineer

Wayve; United States; Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve seeks a hands-on DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD Engineer to build, operate, and improve cloud platforms, build systems, and delivery pipelines that support the software lifecycle. You will create reliable, scalable, secure environments for development, testing, deployment and release in a hybrid Tokyo office.

You will deepen expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering, collaborating with teams to meet application needs and enable fast, safe

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build engineering, or related roles.
• Experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Build tooling concepts including dependency management, caching, incremental builds, and reproducible builds.
• Networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls; Linux, Git, and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems supporting development, testing, and production.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and developer tooling for reliable delivery.
• Operate and scale CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, and containerised workloads.
• Implement observability, monitor system health, and troubleshoot infra, pipeline, and deployment issues.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable delivery.
• Contribute to incident response and continuous improvement of infra and operations.

Skills

Cloud platforms

IaC

CI/CD tooling

Build tooling

Networking & security

Linux & Git

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Buildkite

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve.

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that.

Here’s what this particular role covers.

The Role

As a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD Engineer, you will help build, operate, and improve the cloud platforms, build systems, and continuous integration and delivery infrastructure that support Wayve’s software development lifecycle. Working as part of a team, you’ll focus on creating reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient environments for software development, testing, deployment, and release. This is a hands‑on role with opportunities to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems supporting development, testing, and production.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and developer tooling to enable reliable, repeatable delivery.

• Operate and scale CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, and containerised workloads.

• Implement observability, monitor system health, and troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment issues.

• Work with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery.

• Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of infrastructure and operational practices.

About you

Essential

• Strong troubleshooting, problem‑solving, and communication skills.

• 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or related engineering roles.

• Experience with one or more of the following:

  • At least one cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

  • Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform and Ansible.

  • CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps, or similar.

  • Build tooling and concepts including dependency management, caching, incremental builds, and reproducible builds.

  • Networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls.Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting.

Desirable

• Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buildkite, or similar.

• Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure at scale, including distributed execution, caching, and artifact management.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based build or deployment environments.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

• Understanding of software supply-chain security, secure build practices, and cloud security best practices.

• Experience supporting large, multi-language codebases or distributed systems.

• Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience.

This is a full‑time role based in our office in Tokyo, Japan. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.

Wayve is not a mature, fully‑structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one.

If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you.