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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 22 days Wayve's roles stay open a median of 40 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 40% of Wayve's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Wayve
- high 77 stale, 1 reposted of 169 open
- Hiring momentum
- 201 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Wayve's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Wayve.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer, Data at Wayve, you will be responsible for building and operating large-scale data transfer pipelines that handle petabytes of sensor data daily from global partners. You will contribute to the design of the Data Transfer Hub, implement data transfer models, and ensure the reliability and observability of data systems. Collaboration with product and partner teams is essential to deliver effective solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Wayve as an employer.
What you need
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
What you get
- Hybrid working policy that combines time in the office and working from home
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- The role involves participation in an on-call and support rotation
- Fast-changing environment may require adaptability to evolving requirements
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Listed by Wayve on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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