About the role
From the employer’s listing · Wayve · posted 11 March 2026
The role As a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer at Wayve, you will build and scale the reliability foundations of our AI cloud platform. This includes our Model Development Platform (powering end-to-end model development from raw data to on-road experimentation) and our GPU Compute platform (large-scale, multi-tenant GPU fleets and scheduling systems driving model training and inference at scale). This is a founding Cloud SRE role. You won’t inherit a mature SRE function, you’ll help create it. You will define the frameworks, automation, and operational standards that ensure our model development infrastructure, distributed systems, and large compute clusters operate predictably, efficiently, and at scale. This role sits at the intersection of AI research, large-scale cloud infrastructure, and production operations. Your work will directly enable faster model training, reliable experimentation, and scalable AI deployment by ensuring our cloud infrastructure is resilient and performant. Key responsibilities Reliability & Platform Ownership Own the reliability, availability, and performance of the Model Dev Platform and GPU Compute environments. Define and operationalise SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across platform services. Improve capacity planning, scaling strategies, and resource efficiency across large GPU-backed clusters. Partner with ML, platform, and software teams to establish clear production readiness standards. Incident Response & On-Call Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as first-line response for cloud and cluster-related incidents. Lead incident triage, escalation, communications, and root cause analysis. Translate post-incident learning into durable architectural or automation improvements. Continuously reduce alert noise and recurring operational burden. Observability & Operational Excellence Design and operate monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems that enable rapid detection and recovery. Build dashboards that reflect real user-centric platform health (not just infrastructure metrics). Improve deployment safety through better change management, validation, and rollback mechanisms. Automation & Tooling Build automation for cluster operations, training workflows, remediation, and scaling tasks. Implement self-healing patterns and resilient recovery workflows. Harden CI/CD and release processes to improve deployment safety and velocity. Support infrastructure-as-code and policy-driven guardrails to ensure secure, reliable cloud environments. About you In order to set you up for success as a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience. Essential skills Proven experience in an SRE, Production Engineer, or Cloud Reliability role supporting large-scale cloud systems. Strong Kubernetes experience, including operating production clusters. Hands-on experience running production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience operating complex distributed systems in production,