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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Vehicle Software - **Company:** WAYVE LLC - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $276,100.0 - $311,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Linux, Middleware, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Software Systems, Systems Integration, Rust (Programming Language), Datadog, Safety Critical Systems, Reliability of Systems, Automotive Software, Software Coding - **Published:** September 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a112b916d4fb9839 ## About the Role * 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., * Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive software, safety-critical systems, or cyber-physical products deployed into uncontrolled real-world environments. * Knowledge of onboard compute, sensors, middleware, vehicle networks, OTA deployment, data capture and offload, or multi-variant hardware-software integration. * Experience improving reliability through the transition from research and prototype systems to commercial, multi-market operations. * Experience partnering with fleet operations, field engineering, validation, hardware, or external vehicle and technology partners. ## Description As SRE Manager, you'll build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up - defining its charter, hiring its founding engineers, establishing the operating model, and creating the technical strategy that makes reliability a first-class property of the software running on our vehicles. You'll work in a production environment unlike most: a globally distributed fleet of autonomous vehicles operating at the intersection of software, hardware, networking, sensors, and the physical world. Failures are often intermittent, hard to reproduce, and distributed across ownership boundaries. You'll move reliability upstream - from reactive field support to prevention through architecture, automation, observability, and disciplined production readiness. You'll embed your team within Vehicle Software, partnering with product teams who retain ownership of what they build while your team provides the reliability engineering, standards, and leverage that help them operate fleet-critical software safely at scale. You'll stay hands-on throughout - writing code, reviewing critical designs, and leading the investigations that matter most. The systems you help harden will connect Wayve's AI to physical vehicles and underpin the transition from engineering fleets to commercial operations. Few engineering leadership roles offer this combination of zero-to-one team building, deep systems work, and direct influence on the safety and scalability of autonomous mobility., * Team building & leadership :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. * Reliability strategy: Own technical direction for vehicle software reliability across deployment, service health, telemetry, and diagnostics; define what production-ready means at Wayve. * Production readiness: Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for fleet-critical workflows; drive release criteria, automated gates, rollback strategies, and fault-injection practices across Vehicle Software. * Observability & tooling: 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. * Incident response: Lead investigations into complex failures, ensure every incident produces a durable fix, and strengthen on-call practices and escalation paths across service-owning teams. * Mentorship & communication: Mentor engineers and emerging leaders, and give senior leadership the clarity on reliability health, risks, and investment they need to make good decisions. ## Related Videos - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) - [Developer’s Perspective: Overview of the Tezos Blockchain Ecosystem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/237-developer-s-perspective-overview-of-the-tezos-blockchain-ecosystem) - [The Memory Leak That Ate Our Cluster: A Postmortem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2057-the-memory-leak-that-ate-our-cluster-a-postmortem) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Software defines the vehicle: Why customers and developers will love cars even more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1114-software-defines-the-vehicle-why-customers-and-developers-will-love-cars-even-more) - [Exploring BOS: The Blockchain Operating System by NEAR Protocol](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/781-exploring-bos-the-blockchain-operating-system-by-near-protocol) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering)