Staff Software Engineer - Aurora Services Engineering

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are excited about building a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient & accessible for all. We are searching for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join the Aurora Services Engineering team and take on a critical role in building Aurora's suite of fleet management tools.

The Aurora Services Engineering team creates services and web applications that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by customers and human operators to coordinate the commercial side of our platform - evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, and managing a fleet of vehicles. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build will be critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

As a Staff Backend Engineer in Aurora Services Engineering, you will join a team which builds production-quality, commercial solutions for fleet intelligence, logistics services, user-facing apps, customer API integrations, and onboard modules. These are used to manage, monitor, and interact with active autonomous vehicles & the routes they are operating on. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield completely new ones. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way fleet operations function at Aurora. 

In this role, you will

• Design complex systems from the ground up, working closely with software, hardware, and infrastructure engineering teams along with other stakeholders within Aurora.
• Work with your teammates to establish new technologies and approaches to backend development as our stack matures.
• Build backend services running in Aurora’s AWS cloud used to monitor and manage the location and activity of our entire autonomous fleet.
• Establish technology and infrastructure to move our development product to a product at scale with high availability and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including Security, Product, Design, Safety and Cloud Platform to achieve company milestones.
• Send suggestions and receive updates from vehicles in real time in order to ensure the safe operation of Aurora’s autonomous fleet.
• Contribute to and evolve our team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications 

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software for people. We build software with people. You know how to write an effective technical spec, provide feedback to others, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback into your efforts. You value and practice openness, empathy, kindness, and collaboration.
• A preference for action. You will use good judgment to balance speed and quality. You will deliver products that are built in a responsible and sustainable way. You will use a self-starter mentality to thrive in a growing environment where all hands are on deck, and consider no obstacle too big or too small. You will notice where there is a need and will hustle to fill it.
• The drive to make teams stronger. You're excited to work hard and fast to the finish line on new opportunities with a collaborative and integrated team. You will be proactive in engaging conflict with openness, patience and kindness in an environment where it is safe to lean on each other and learn from failures.
• Motivation to own the product lifecycle end to end. You’re happy to engage with our product and design teams and our internal customers to understand their needs and find ways to meet them. You ensure that product development stays on course all the way through release and post-release support.
• Strong backend service engineering skills. We use modern technologies to build our products including Golang, Python C++, gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS. We’re happy to help you learn and adapt to our stack.
• Experience working with databases and caches such as Postgres and Redis.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Desirable Qualifications 

• Experience taking a SaaS project into production at scale
• Experience building gRPC services using Golang.
• Experience with IoT devices and Over-the-Air communication.
• Experience with Kubernetes, including service configuration, monitoring and deployment.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience with fleet management solutions for robots, vehicles, or aerial drones.
• Experience with external customer facing software including production rollout with real customers.

The base range for this position is $189,000 - $303,000.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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