Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Vay
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Driverless mobility service
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Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ 💰 ESOP stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.
Role
Who you are
- You will be a seasoned Senior Cloud Infrastructure or DevOps engineer who is comfortable owning complex infrastructure end to end
- You combine strong systems knowledge with a pragmatic, automation first mindset and thrive in environments where reliability matters
- Systems expertise: Strong background in Linux systems, servers, storage, networking, and databases
- Cloud and security: Solid understanding of AWS, cloud networking, and security best practices
- Containerisation: Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code: Proven experience with IaC and automation using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- CI/CD: Hands on experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions and CircleCI
- Scripting and automation: Comfortable scripting in Python and or Bash/Shell
- Autonomous execution: Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make sound technical decisions in a production environment
What the job involves
- At Vay, cars are remotely operated on public streets in real time. Running this safely at scale requires a highly reliable, low latency, security critical cloud infrastructure
- As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will own and evolve the systems that keep our fleet and remote control stations available, observable, and cost efficient. You’ll work on AWS infrastructure, monitoring, CI/CD, and release tooling that directly supports live customer operations
- You’ll join a pragmatic, experienced engineering team working on a production system already used by customers, with clear ownership, real operational responsibility, and room to shape how the platform scales
- You will be a senior, hands on contributor responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Vay’s cloud infrastructure
- Cloud infrastructure: Design, operate, and continuously improve our AWS based cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on availability and reliability
- Monitoring and observability: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to proactively detect and resolve issues
- Fleet orchestration: Orchestrate software configuration and deployment across 100+ vehicles and remote control stations
- Cost and performance optimisation: Improve infrastructure reliability while optimising cost efficiency as the fleet scales
- CI/CD and release tooling: Increase release frequency and safety by improving CI/CD tooling, automated testing, and self service release processes
- Architecture evolution: Contribute to and help shape the evolution of our cloud and infrastructure architecture as the system grows in complexity and scale
- Our Tech Stack: AWS, GitHub, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana
Our take
Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.
Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.
Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge. 2024 funding is being used to expand its development team and grow its European market.
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Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2025
$60m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
Total funding: $169.6m
Company benefits
- You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
- You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
- We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
- We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
- We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
- We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
- We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
- We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price
Company HQ
Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Thomas von der Ohe
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.
Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.
Bogdan Djukic
(VP of Engineering & Co-Founder)Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.
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