Sobre este puesto de Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure en Wayve
About us
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
The role
Lead a seasoned Platform Engineering team with visibility across the entire engineering organization. This team owns the multi-cloud foundation that every other engineering team builds on, so your decisions and your team's work are felt company-wide. You'll shape how we scale that foundation while keeping quality, cost, and security front and center as the business grows.
Key responsibilities
- Manage a team of Platform Engineers, coaching them to drive strong impact.
- Drive the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure with the tech lead.
- Own cost visibility and efficiency as cloud usage scales.
- Partner with Security on governance, access, and compliance.
- Balance resourcing against business needs and individual capacity.
- Keep prioritization sharp and processes lean.
- Partner with leadership to sustain a culture of collaboration, impact, and innovation.
- Hire and grow the team, anticipating business needs and pitching investment to leadership.
- Contribute to the day-to-day running of the Software team’s operations and larger collaborative efforts.
About you
Wayve is scaling fast, and we're looking for someone who's passionate about laying the cornerstone: building the cloud infrastructure foundations and best practices that will support the company for years to come. Here's what will help you thrive as our Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure.
Essential
- Prior experience as an engineering manager in software or developer operations.
- Experience balancing project work with support and operational load.
- Passion for developing individual team members.
- Strong roadmap planning, stakeholder management, and cross-team alignment.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP) at scale.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
- Familiarity with Linux and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Experience operating a multi-cloud environment.
- Knowledge of build systems and modern CI/CD solutions.
- Experience developing in Python.
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $276,100 to $311,400, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know.
We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
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.
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DISCLAIMER: 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.
