Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• Proven experience building and operating large-scale data transfer, ingestion or data processing pipelines, ideally at multi-TB or PB scale
• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience delivering & maintaining production systems
• Experience with workflow orchestration for parallelised jobs; Flyte preferred, but Airflow, Prefect or similar tools are also relevant
• Experience building reliable, observable data systems, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking and operational alerting
• Strong cloud platform skills, with Azure preferred; experience with AWS or GCP is a plus
• Proficiency in Python and Terraform
• Experience with blob/object storage, large-scale file movement, networking or cloud-to-cloud data transfer
• A product mindset: you think about the customer and build solutions that fix real problems, not just implement requirements
• Comfort working in a fast-changing environment with evolving requirements
• A strong sense of ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, communicate clearly, and help the team move quickly
• Experience working with external data partners or customer-facing technical integrations
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, geospatial data, video processing or other data-intensive domains
• Experience with Kafka or other event-driven systems for transfer observability and lifecycle tracking
• Experience building dashboards to communicate transfer job status
• Multi-cloud experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP
• Experience improving cost efficiency, throughput or reliability of large-scale cloud data systems

What the job involves

• We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data to help build Wayve's Data Transfer Hub: a mission-critical piece of infrastructure that will scale to transfer petabytes of sensor data per day from partners covering vehicles around the world
• This is a pivotal project at Wayve. You'll work as part of a small, high-autonomy team building a globally distributed hub-and-spoke data exchange system, working with partners like Uber, Stellantis and Nissan. Your work will help make Wayve's AI model training possible at scale
• Build and operate large-scale data transfer pipelines for video, LiDAR and sensor data from global partners at up to PB/day scale
• Contribute to the technical design of the Data Transfer Hub, making pragmatic trade-offs across UX, careliability, throughput, cost, partner constraints, observability and operational support
• Build parallelised, distributed data transfer pipelines using Flyte for workflow orchestration, Kafka/event-driven patterns for lifecycle tracing, and Azure for storage and transfer infrastructure
• Help implement and evolve a globally distributed hub-and-spoke data transfer model to retrieve and share sensor data at scale with partners
• Write infrastructure-as-code in Terraform and pipeline logic primarily in Python
• Build reliable operational foundations, including retry strategies, backfills, data integrity checks, lifecycle/state tracking, dashboards and alerting
• Work on cloud-to-cloud and cross-cloud networking solutions, with Azure as the primary cloud platform
• Once established, participate in an out-of-hours on-call and support rotation
• Collaborate with product, commercial and partner-facing teams to understand constraints and deliver solutions that solve real customer and partner problems
• Work in a fast-changing environment where requirements and partner deliverable dates evolve, while maintaining high engineering standards

Benefits

• Private healthcare: Choose our optional health insurance for comprehensive coverage for you and your family.
• Paid time off: Paid vacation plus public holidays and additional leave programs, ensuring you have time to unwind.
• Mental health resources: Through Spill, you can access therapy and mental health support.
• Community and socials: Join clubs or attend team socials to connect over hobbies, sports, or just for fun.
• Competitive compensation: Our compensation package includes cash and equity, making you a true partner in our success.
• Learning and development: Budgets for books, courses, and company-wide training to support your continuous growth.