Wayve - Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Tokyo, Japan - Hybrid3w ago

In Office Senior EMEA Cloud Computing Software Platform Engineer Staff Engineer Terraform Kubernetes Azure Ansible Governance

Responsibilities

• As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll help build, operate and improve the cloud platforms, build systems and continuous integration and delivery infrastructure that support Wayve’s software development lifecycle. Working as part of a global team, you’ll create reliable, scalable, secure and efficient environments for software development, testing, deployment and release. As one of the first two DevOps engineers in Japan, you’ll combine hands-on project work with local coverage for Wayve’s global developer-support model during normal Japan working hours. • 🧩 What you’ll be working on: • Building, operating and improving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and build systems that support development, testing and production, primarily in Azure. • Developing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform and Ansible), automation and developer tooling for reliable, repeatable delivery. • Operating and scaling CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, distributed execution, caching and containerised workloads. • Implementing observability, monitoring system health, and troubleshooting infrastructure, pipeline, build and deployment issues. • Optimising cloud systems for performance, reliability, security and cost efficiency. • Working with engineering teams across Japan, the UK and the US to make sure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery. • Contributing to the DevOps support channel, incident response and root cause analysis, and reducing manual operations through automation. • 🙌 You should apply if: • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills. • 8 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or related engineering roles. • Experience with one or more of the following: • At least one cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. • Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform and Ansible. • CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, Azure DevOps, or similar. • Build tooling and concepts including dependency management, caching, incremental builds, and reproducible builds. • Networking, cloud architecture, system reliability, and secure access controls. • Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting. • Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buildkite, or similar. • Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure at scale, including distributed execution, caching, and artifact management. • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based build or deployment environments. • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK. • Understanding of software supply-chain security, secure build practices, and cloud security best practices. • Experience supporting large, multi-language codebases or distributed systems. • Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience. • 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.

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. To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at WayveDISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.