# Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Vehicle Software at Wayve

- Company: Wayve
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF and Air Street.
- Company website: https://wayve.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $276K to $311K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://wayve.firststage.co/jobs?gh_jid=8728803002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wayve-site-reliability-engineering-manager-vehicle-software/

## About the role

As SRE Manager, you'll build the Vehicle Software SRE team from the ground up — defining its charter, hiring its founding engineers, establishing the operating model, and creating the technical strategy that makes reliability a first-class property of the software running on our vehicles.

## What they're looking for

- Team building & leadership : Build and lead a new SRE team from the ground up, staying hands-on as a player-coach on the team's most consequential work
- Reliability strategy: Own technical direction for vehicle software reliability across deployment, service health, telemetry, and diagnostics, define what production-ready means at Wayve
- Production readiness: Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for fleet-critical workflows, drive release criteria, automated gates, rollback strategies, and fault-injection practices across Vehicle Software
- Incident response: Lead investigations into complex failures, ensure every incident produces a durable fix, and strengthen on-call practices and escalation paths across service-owning teams
- Mentorship & communication: Mentor engineers and emerging leaders, and give senior leadership the clarity on reliability health, risks, and investment they need to make good decisions

Tags: Vehicle SW Engineering