Vehicle Software SRE Manager — Build Reliability at Scale

Wayve; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 276,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Equity package

Job summary

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced SRE Manager to build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, while remaining hands‑on on critical work. You will define reliability standards and partner across software, hardware, and vehicle operations to ensure fleet‑scale success.

You will lead from the front, shaping architecture reviews, observability tooling, and incident response, with a strong emphasis on production readiness and safe, scalable software for autonomous mobility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production software systems with strong depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems, or robotics, and a recent track record of writing production‑quality code and leading architecture reviews across Linux‑based, distributed, or hardware‑software systems.
• 3+ years in people leadership with a track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineers across levels while staying actively engaged in coding, design, and code review; experience forming a new team or capability from scratch is a strong plus.
• Proven experience with SLOs, error budgets, production‑readiness standards, observability, incident management, postmortems, and toil‑reduction programmes, with measurable outcomes to show for it.
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross‑functional problems into clear ownership, sequenced plans, and reliable delivery without relying on formal authority.
• Hands‑on experience building production software, automation, and diagnostic tooling in C++, Rust, Python, or Go, with familiarity with CI/CD, release systems, telemetry pipelines, and modern observability tooling.
• Calm and structured during incidents, with clear communication across software, hardware, operations, product, and executive stakeholders; a leadership approach grounded in ownership, blameless learning, and autonomy with accountability.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new SRE team from the ground up, staying hands‑on as a player‑coach on the team's most consequential work.
• Own technical direction for vehicle software reliability across deployment, service health, telemetry, and diagnostics; define what production‑ready means at Wayve.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for fleet‑critical workflows; drive release criteria, automated gates, rollback strategies, and fault‑injection practices across Vehicle Software.
• Design and implement the observability and automation that shortens the path from vehicle symptom to root cause, cuts the manual toil between failure and fix, and shapes systems for robustness, recoverability, and debuggability.
• Lead investigations into complex failures, ensure every incident produces a durable fix, and strengthen on‑call practices and escalation paths across service‑owning teams.
• Mentor engineers and emerging leaders, and give senior leadership the clarity on reliability health, risks, and investment they need to make good decisions.

Skills

SRE leadership

Production engineering

Embedded systems

Linux systems

C++

Rust

Python

Go

People leadership

Architecture reviews

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Tools

CI/CD

Telemetry pipelines

Observability tooling

Job description

Wayve in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced SRE Manager to build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, while remaining hands‑on on critical work. You will define reliability standards and partner across software, hardware, and vehicle operations to ensure fleet‑scale success.

You will lead from the front, shaping architecture reviews, observability tooling, and incident response, with a strong emphasis on production readiness and safe, scalable software for autonomous mobility.