# SRE Manager, Vehicle Software

**Company**: Wayve
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $276.1K - $311.4K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future.

You will be responsible for managing the SRE Engineering Teams that build the software bringing Wayve's autonomous-driving technology onto real vehicles.

**Your Day-to-Day**

- Interview, onboard and coach engineers, setting clear expectations and supporting their performance and career growth.

- Work with engineering managers and technical leads to review reliability risks, agree on ownership and prioritize the team's work.

- Stay hands-on by designing solutions, writing production code and reviewing critical changes alongside your team.

- Lead technical investigations and incident reviews, turning findings into concrete fixes and follow-up work.

- Coordinate focused projects with Vehicle Software teams, helping them improve reliability while retaining ownership of their systems.

- Review reliability metrics and roadmap progress, adjusting priorities to reflect product milestones, fleet needs and operational risk.

- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs and results to engineering and company leaders.

**What You'll Be Working On**

- Building the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up, including its charter, team structure, hiring plan, operating model and technical strategy.

- Reliability foundations for onboard software and the workflows that deploy, configure, start, monitor and recover it across vehicle platforms and markets.

- Service-level indicators and objectives, error budgets and production-readiness standards that give teams clear measures of system health and release readiness.

- Observability, health signals and diagnostic tools that help engineers understand failures across onboard compute, sensors, networking and vehicle data.

- Safer deployment and recovery through automated validation, release gates, smoke tests, rollback mechanisms and resilience testing.

- Incident-response workflows, runbooks, escalation paths and sustainable on-call practices that reduce repeat failures and speed up recovery.

- Automation and self-service tools that reduce manual operational work and help vehicle operations scale.

**Requirements**

- 3+ years of engineering-management experience, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching and career development.

- 8+ years of experience building or operating complex production software, with depth in SRE, production engineering, platform engineering, embedded systems or a related field.

- You still write production-quality code, design systems and lead substantive code reviews.

- You have applied SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management and release-safety practices to deliver measurable improvements.

- You build an inclusive team culture with clear accountability, thoughtful feedback and blameless learning from incidents.

**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

## Skills

### Required
- SRE
- production engineering
- platform engineering
- embedded systems
- Linux
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- autonomous vehicles
- robotics
- automotive
- safety-critical systems

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