Wayve
Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
$210K–$267K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
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- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Build and operate reliable, high-volume data ingestion pipelines that process real-world driving data for annotation, training, and evaluation.
What you'll do
- Debug pipeline failures, stalled jobs, queues, and malformed data.
- Optimize Spark jobs and batch-processing pipelines for throughput, reliability, and compute efficiency.
- Improve pipeline resilience, monitoring, retries, and recovery; help prioritize datasets for downstream teams.
What they ask for
- Strong production experience with Apache Spark and Python.
- Experience building, operating, or debugging large-scale ingestion, ETL, or distributed data-processing pipelines.
- Ability to diagnose production failures involving corrupt data, stalled queues, retries, and complex dependencies.
- Understanding of optimizing high-throughput systems for reliability, performance, and cost.
Nice to have
- Experience with Airflow, Flyte, Databricks, or Delta Lake.
- Experience with Scala or Java.
Pay
USD 209.7K – 266.8K base salary
Tools
Apache Spark, Python, Airflow, Flyte, Databricks, Delta Lake, Scala, Java
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