wayve - Staff Software Engineer, Storage Platform
Responsibilities
• Lead a hands-on, multi-quarter storage programme, from defining the problems and architecture to delivering platforms that teams adopt. • Build production services, controllers and infrastructure using Python, Go or a similar language, alongside Kubernetes and Terraform. • Partner with ML and data teams to understand access patterns, remove storage bottlenecks and reduce the time GPUs spend waiting for data. • Work with Security and Privacy to strengthen access controls, auditing and safe deletion of vehicle-collected data. • Write design documents and RFCs, align teams around shared standards, and mentor engineers as the platform and team grow. • 🧩 What you’ll be working on • Data ownership and governance: Give datasets clear owners, purposes and retention classes, with tagging and team-level cost attribution. • Safe lifecycle management: Build retention, deletion and re-tiering capabilities for Azure Blob, backed by dry runs, audit trails and recovery paths. • Read performance and caching: Improve throughput and latency by tackling small-object reads, throttling, unnecessary data access and cross-region hops. • Secure data movement: Design Kubernetes-native NVMe caching and secure replication across regions and clouds. • Measurable platform outcomes: Establish standards, dashboards and SLOs for availability, performance, cache effectiveness, storage tiers and cost. • 🙌 You should apply if • You’ve operated at Staff Engineer scope, leading complex infrastructure programmes across multiple teams from problem definition through adoption. • You’ve owned petabyte-scale object storage end to end—including data layout, lifecycle management, performance and cost—with measurable outcomes against a cost target. • You’ve built scalable systems for data ownership, tagging, cataloguing, retention or deletion. • You bring strong security and access-management experience, including IAM/RBAC, encryption, secure replication and auditing. • You’re a hands-on software engineer with strong Python, Go or comparable skills, plus production Kubernetes, Terraform and CI experience. You build durable platforms and services, not just one-off scripts.
Benefits
• 💰 Salaries benchmarked against the market annually • 📈 Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve • ✈️ Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable • ✅ Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs • 📚 Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth • 🩺 Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more • Wayve is not a mature, fully-structured place with the playbook already written. Much of how we work is still being written, and if you join, you’ll help write it. That suits people who want real ownership more than people who need a settled structure from day one. • If that sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend your time on, we’d really like to hear from you. • At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. • For more information visit Careers at Wayve. https://wayve.ai/careers/ To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve https://wayve.ai/careers/
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