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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Data - **Company:** Wayve - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Transmissions, Data Integrity, Data Systems, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Video Editing, Workflow Management Systems, Cloud Platform System, Multi-Cloud, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Lidar, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=502ccdffc862b3bc ## About the Role In order to set you up for success as a Senior Software Engineer at Wayve, we're looking for the following skills and experience., * Proven experience building and operating large-scale data transfer, ingestion or data processing pipelines, ideally at multi-TB or PB scale * Strong software engineering skills * Experience delivering & maintaining production systems * Experience with workflow orchestration for parallelised jobs; Flyte preferred, but Airflow, Prefect or similar tools are also relevant * Experience building reliable, observable data systems, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking and operational alerting * Strong cloud platform skills, with Azure preferred; experience with AWS or GCP is a plus * Proficiency in Python and Terraform * Experience with blob/object storage, large-scale file movement, networking or cloud-to-cloud data transfer * A product mindset: you think about the customer and build solutions that fix real problems, not just implement requirements * Comfort working in a fast-changing environment with evolving requirements * A strong sense of ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, communicate clearly, and help the team move quickly Desirable * Experience working with external data partners or customer-facing technical integrations * Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, geospatial data, video processing or other data-intensive domains * Experience with Kafka or other event-driven systems for transfer observability and lifecycle tracking * Experience building dashboards to communicate transfer job status * Multi-cloud experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP * Experience improving cost efficiency, throughput or reliability of large-scale cloud data systems ## Description * Build and operate large-scale data transfer pipelines for video, LiDAR and sensor data from global partners at up to PB/day scale * Contribute to the technical design of the Data Transfer Hub, making pragmatic trade-offs across UX, careliability, throughput, cost, partner constraints, observability and operational support * Build parallelised, distributed data transfer pipelines using Flyte for workflow orchestration, Kafka/event-driven patterns for lifecycle tracing, and Azure for storage and transfer infrastructure * Help implement and evolve a globally distributed hub-and-spoke data transfer model to retrieve and share sensor data at scale with partners * Write infrastructure-as-code in Terraform and pipeline logic primarily in Python * Build reliable operational foundations, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking, dashboards and alerting * Work on cloud-to-cloud and cross-cloud networking solutions, with Azure as the primary cloud platform * Once established, participate in an out-of-hours on-call and support rotation. * Collaborate with product, commercial and partner-facing teams to understand constraints and deliver solutions that solve real customer and partner problems * Work in a fast-changing environment where requirements and partner deliverable dates evolve, while maintaining high engineering standards ## Related Videos - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [How to develop an autonomous car end-to-end: Robotic Drive and the mobility revolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/22-how-to-develop-an-autonomous-car-end-to-end-robotic-drive-and-the-mobility-revolution) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [AI Model Management Life Circles: ML Ops For Generative AI Models From Research to Deployment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1152-ai-model-management-life-circles-ml-ops-for-generative-ai-models-from-research-to-deployment) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london)