Staff Platform Engineer

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. 🛠️ About our Engineering Teams Our DevOps team owns two main areas: cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, networking, security and the Coder development environment, and build infrastructure across GitHub, Bazel, Buildkite, testing and related developer tooling. The two engineers we’re hiring will be the start of our local DevOps presence in Japan, part of a follow-the-sun support model with our UK and US teams. 🧠 Your day-to-day 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: Essential: 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 cont