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Platform Engineer

Tokyo, Japan

Vehicle SW Engineering

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.
• E__xperience 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.   

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