Wayve
Staff Software Engineer Engineer, Model Development Platform
$276K–$294K
Sunnyvale, California USA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; includes experience at senior or staff level.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where applicable.
About the job
Owns the architecture and operation of cloud services supporting Wayve’s AI model lifecycle, enabling teams to develop, evaluate, and safely deploy autonomous driving models.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve secure, reliable, scalable platform services, including identity and access control, microservices, and micro-frontends.
- Build deployment, observability, and rollback infrastructure; own significant services and initiatives through production operation.
- Set technical direction, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on the platform roadmap.
What they ask for
- 7+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, or developer platforms, including at senior or staff level.
- Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures on a major cloud provider, with API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
- Hands-on authentication and authorization experience, plus experience driving reliability, defining SLAs/SLOs, and building highly available systems.
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization and orchestration, infrastructure as code, safe release and rollback strategies, and production-quality Python or TypeScript; understanding of React and micro-frontends.
Nice to have
- Experience building developer platforms or ML tools, or familiarity with ML operations.
- Experience with data pipelines, distributed orchestration, large-scale compute, service mesh, API gateways, progressive delivery, sensitive-data compliance, or safety-critical domains.
Pay
$276,100 – $293,750 (base salary)
Tools
OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Ray
AI focus
Builds the platform infrastructure and tooling for the AI model lifecycle, including data and training workflows, experiment scheduling, evaluation, and on-road testing.
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