Staff Software Engineer: Cloud Platform for Autonomous Driving AI

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Equity and long-term ownership

Relocation support

Training budgets

Health insurance

Job summary

Wayve is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Model Development Platform. You will own cloud service architecture supporting AI model lifecycle, from data and training workflows to experiment scheduling and on-road testing.

Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and balance speed with security for scalable, reliable systems. You’ll work hands-on across backend services, web apps and cloud infrastructure, partnering with Product, Research and Operations to align technical solutions with user

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Experience with API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows.
• Hands-on experience with authentication/authorization and security best practices.
• Proven ability to operate scalable microservice architectures on a major cloud.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript and modern web tech (React, micro-frontends).

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of cloud services powering AI model lifecycle.
• Lead backend, web applications and cloud infra with hands-on coding.
• Define patterns for microservices and frontend components.
• Ship CI/CD, progressive delivery and safe rollback with observability.
• Drive end-to-end ownership from design to production operations.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Cloud

Backend

Security

Kubernetes

React

TypeScript

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Wayve is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Model Development Platform. You will own cloud service architecture supporting AI model lifecycle, from data and training workflows to experiment scheduling and on-road testing.

Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and balance speed with security for scalable, reliable systems. You’ll work hands-on across backend services, web apps and cloud infrastructure, partnering with Product, Research and Operations to align technical solutions with user