Platform Engineer

Role details

THE ROLE As a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD Engineer, you will 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 team, you’ll focus on creating reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient environments for software development, testing, deployment, and release. This is a hands-on role with opportunities to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems supporting development, testing, and production. - Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and developer tooling to enable reliable, repeatable delivery. - Operate and scale CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, and containerised workloads. - Implement observability, monitor system health, and troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment issues. - Work with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery. - Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of infrastructure and operational practices. ABOUT YOU Essential - Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills. - 5 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 controls.Experience with Linux, Git, and shell scripting. Desirable - Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buildkite, or similar. - Experience operating CI/CD infrastructure at scale, including distributed execution, caching, and artifact management. - Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container-based build or deployment environments. - Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK. - Understanding of software supply-chain security, secure build practices, and cloud security best practices. - Experience supporting large, multi-language codebases or distributed systems. - Experience improving cloud cost efficiency and operational resilience. This is a full-time role based in our office in Tokyo, Japan. 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. #LI-AF1