# Senior Software Engineer, Data - Company: [Wayve]() - Location: London, United Kingdom - Team: Product & Delivery - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 25, 2026 ## Job description ## **The role** Portal is the cloud platform that connects Wayve to the outside world: handling data exchange with partners, surfacing AI insights, and enabling the commercial deployment of Wayve's AI driver on vehicles across the globe. 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. **Key responsibilities:** * 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 ## **About you** In order to set you up for success as a Senior Software Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience. **Essential** * 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 **Desirable** * 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 This is a full-time role based in our office in London.  At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. ## Apply [Apply on Wayve]() Canonical job page: