Waabi3mo ago

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Observability / SRE)

Canada·TorontoFull-timesenior

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Quick Summary

Overview

Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis.

Requirements Summary

- 5+ years software engineering or systems/performance engineering experience (BS in CS/EE or related), with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex projects.

Technical Tools

cppdockergrafanajavakubernetesprometheuspythonpytorchrustci-cddistributed-systemslinuxmentoringmicroservicesnetworkingperformance-optimizationsystem-design

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

You will..

- Design and lead the architecture and development of Waabi’s monitoring and observability stack, used to monitor the health and performance of cloud and on-prem environments.

- Develop and extend workloads and benchmarks (compute, storage, network, ML/AI) and integrate stress, chaos, and regression tests to validate hardware and platform choices.

- Analyze and optimize end-to-end performance across hardware, firmware, Linux kernel, runtimes, and distributed services using advanced profiling tools (perf, eBPF, flamegraphs, tracing frameworks).

- Build automation and observability tooling (Go/Python/Java, Kubernetes/Docker) for CI/CD-based performance regression detection, telemetry, alerting, and anomaly detection.

- Work with client teams to support their applications’ observability requirements.

- Influence system architecture and tooling decisions that improve how Waabi builds, monitors, and scales its infrastructure.

- Drive execution and quality, writing design docs, setting milestones, mentoring ICs, and communicating insights and results to stakeholders and leadership.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years software engineering or systems/performance engineering experience (BS in CS/EE or related), with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex projects.

- Proficient in at least one of: Python, Rust, C/C++; strong CS fundamentals and system design skills.

- Hands-on with Linux internals (CPU scheduling, memory, I/O, networking) and perf tooling (perf, eBPF, flamegraphs, tracing frameworks).

- Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems; comfort building production services and pipelines.

- Proven track record of clear communication, writing design docs, and leading cross-functional efforts.

Bonus:

- Experience deploying and managing observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Grafana OSS).

- Performance tuning for databases/streaming/batch/ML platforms; GPU/xPU or Arm performance exposure.

- Experience tuning stream processing, batch or ML platforms (e.g. Argo Workflows, PyTorch).

- Familiarity with microservices debugging and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus).

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

Toronto, Canada

Hybrid — some on-site time required

Who can apply

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Listing Details

Posted: February 12, 2026
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 13, 2026

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Days active: 48
Repost count: 0
Trust Level: 33%
Scored at: May 14, 2026

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Waabi is an AI company developing generative AI-powered autonomous driving technology for long-haul trucking, aiming for commercial deployment in 2025.

Employees

125

Founded

2021

Domain

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