Staff Software Engineer — AI Model Platform

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Relocation support

Learning budget & growth opportunities

Equity

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Model Development Platform in Sunnyvale. You will own cloud services shaping the AI model lifecycle, from data pipelines to on-road testing, and lead cross-team technical efforts with a hands-on approach across backend, web apps and cloud infra.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture and design decisions, and establish reusable patterns while balancing speed, scalability and security in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms or developer platforms, including at senior or staff level.
• Cloud services & architecture: design and operate scalable microservice architectures on a major cloud provider, with API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Security & access control: hands-on experience implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC) with sound security practices.
• Reliability & delivery: experience driving reliability improvements, defining SLAs/SLOs, and building observable, self-healing, highly available systems; CI/CD, containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes), infra as code, safe release and rollback.
• Hands-on engineering: ability to write and review production-quality code in Python or TypeScript, with solid web architecture knowledge including React and micro-frontends.
• End-to-end ownership: track record of taking significant services from design through deployment and production operation.
• Collaborative influence & mentorship: mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews and pairing; fostering engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of cloud services powering Wayve's model lifecycle, from data and training workflows to experiment scheduling and on-road testing.
• Lead by example across backend services, web apps and cloud infra; drive design reviews and mentorship.
• Define patterns for backend microservices and micro-frontends to enable independent release.
• Build CI/CD, progressive delivery and robust rollback with observability and self-healing.
• Take multi-quarter initiatives from problem definition to production operation, balancing speed, scalability and security.
• Collaborate with Product, Research, Design and Operations to align tech solutions with user needs.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud services & architecture

Security & access control

Reliability & delivery

Hands-on engineering

End-to-end ownership

Collaborative mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

OAuth2/OIDC

RBAC

Python

TypeScript

React

Job description

Wayve is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Model Development Platform in Sunnyvale. You will own cloud services shaping the AI model lifecycle, from data pipelines to on-road testing, and lead cross-team technical efforts with a hands-on approach across backend, web apps and cloud infra.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture and design decisions, and establish reusable patterns while balancing speed, scalability and security in a hybrid work setting.