Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Staff Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Connectivity team. The Vehicle Connectivity team is responsible for Aurora’s self-driving vehicle connectivity stack for reliable, observable, and secure vehicle-to-cloud communications.

In this role, you will

• Define vehicle connectivity and communication architecture
• Address connectivity-specific concerns for vehicle runtime, e.g. networking, performance, and observability
• Perform connectivity bring up of new vehicle platforms
• Work with autonomy engineers to meet performance and efficiency requirements for data collection and offload
• Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Strong programming skills in C++
• Ability to work across multiple programming languages and paradigms
• Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, gRPC, HTTP
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Experience with Linux network configuration and troubleshooting
• Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Work autonomously, but still be a great team player with colleagues across time-zones

Desirable Qualifications 

• Experience with performance evaluation and optimization. 
• Network health monitoring frameworks
• Strong programming skills in GoLang
• Experience with safety critical systems
• Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4

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.

 #LI-td-1

 #Mid-Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Staff Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Connectivity team. The Vehicle Connectivity team is responsible for Aurora’s self-driving vehicle connectivity stack for reliable, observable, and secure vehicle-to-cloud communications.

In this role, you will

• Define vehicle connectivity and communication architecture
• Address connectivity-specific concerns for vehicle runtime, e.g. networking, performance, and observability
• Perform connectivity bring up of new vehicle platforms
• Work with autonomy engineers to meet performance and efficiency requirements for data collection and offload
• Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Strong programming skills in C++
• Ability to work across multiple programming languages and paradigms
• Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, gRPC, HTTP
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Experience with Linux network configuration and troubleshooting
• Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Work autonomously, but still be a great team player with colleagues across time-zones

Desirable Qualifications 

• Experience with performance evaluation and optimization. 
• Network health monitoring frameworks
• Strong programming skills in GoLang
• Experience with safety critical systems
• Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4

The base range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000.  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.

 #LI-td-1

 #Mid-Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

The journey to developing our cutting-edge self-driving truck Driver software requires a massive and continuous computational effort. Every day, Aurora's engineers initiate and manage millions of compute tasks, systematically processing and analyzing petabytes of critical data. This colossal computational workload spans various essential domains, including raw and derived data processing pipelines, large-scale simulations to test and validate the software in countless scenarios, and the intensive machine learning training jobs that are the core of our autonomous system's intelligence.

At the heart of orchestrating this monumental compute infrastructure is the Compute team. This team is dedicated to building and maintaining the foundational technology that solves the fundamental challenges of resource scheduling, task isolation, and distributed state consistency across our massive batch compute fleet. At our scale, traditional off-the-shelf orchestrators break. The Compute team builds the custom engine - BatchAPI - that manages the lifecycle of millions of tasks - built on top of K8s primitives but implements our own custom scheduler.

We deal with the 'unsolved' problems of distributed computing: maximizing hardware utilization while ensuring that a failure in one node doesn't cascade across the entire cluster. This engine is engineered to handle massive scale, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and rapid turnaround for our engineers.

Furthermore, the Compute team empowers engineers across the company to effectively harness this compute power. They develop and maintain the Batch Workflows Python SDK. This framework provides an intuitive, high-level interface that allows engineers to programmatically define, construct, deploy, monitor, and manage their complex computational workloads. The SDK abstracts away the complexities of the underlying infrastructure, enabling engineers to focus purely on the logic and goals of their data processing, simulation, or training tasks, thus accelerating the entire development cycle for the Aurora Driver.

In this role you will

• Design, implement, and maintain core components of the high-performance, large-scale distributed batch compute engine (BatchAPI). Architect and optimize the scheduler, resource allocator, and execution engine of BatchAPI to handle bursty, heterogeneous workloads with minimal overhead.
• Design low-latency APIs and resilient communication protocols that bridge our Python SDK with the Golang-based core engine.
• Develop high-level workflow abstractions, enabling engineers across the company to programmatically define, deploy, and manage complex data processing, simulation, and ML training pipelines. 
• Solve complex problems in distributed locking, throttling, and fair-share scheduling to ensure multi-tenant stability.
• Drive continuous improvements in the performance, scalability, and resilience of the entire compute infrastructure, implementing robust monitoring and alerting systems to maintain operational excellence for critical workflows.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams (e.g., Autonomy, Data, Simulation, Machine Learning) to gather requirements, provide expert consultation, and integrate compute workflows with key company systems.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in Golang (for core systems) and Python (for SDK/API layering).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., CAP theorem, consensus algorithms, or gossip protocols).
• Experience with performance profiling and tuning (e.g., memory management, I/O bottlenecks, or network latency optimization).
• Specialized knowledge of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of driving continuous performance, scalability, and resilience improvements in production environments managing critical data.
• Familiarity with cloud provider compute and data services (e.g., AWS EKS, S3, RDS).

Desirable qualifications

• Experience working with computational workloads specific to the autonomous vehicle, robotics, or large-scale machine learning domains (e.g., data processing for perception, simulation, or model training).
• Demonstrated ability in creating and refining user-facing tools, including adeptness at incorporating user feedback, managing expectations, and effectively prioritizing development based on user needs.
• Web UI development experience (Typescript, React)

 #LI- #Mid-Senior 

The base salary range for this position is  $146,000 - $234,000 per year. 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.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are excited about building the future of transportation 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 an exceptional Staff-level 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 full-stack solutions including backend services, web apps, mobile apps, and real-time onboard code that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that drives the commercial side of our platform such as assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, managing a fleet of vehicles, and receiving orders from customers. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build are critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer you will join a team which builds solutions for autonomous vehicle terminal operations: launching and landing vehicles at locations owned by Aurora and its largest customers. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield completely new ones. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way terminal 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 stakeholder teams within Aurora.
• Embrace AI tools to add new features which delight our users, along with improving frontend, backend, and onboard engineering efficiency.
• 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 scale our products 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.

You will be a good fit if you have

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software with people and for 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.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience with a  focus on high-availability cloud services.

Desirable experience

• Experience taking a SaaS development 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 $171,000 - $273,000.  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.

 #LI-WS1 #Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are excited about building the future of transportation 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 an exceptional Staff-level 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 full-stack solutions including backend services, web apps, mobile apps, and real-time onboard code that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that drives the commercial side of our platform such as assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, managing a fleet of vehicles, and receiving orders from customers. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build are critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer you will join a team which builds solutions for autonomous vehicle terminal operations: launching and landing vehicles at locations owned by Aurora and its largest customers. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield completely new ones. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way terminal 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 stakeholder teams within Aurora.
• Embrace AI tools to add new features which delight our users, along with improving frontend, backend, and onboard engineering efficiency.
• 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 scale our products 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.

You will be a good fit if you have

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software with people and for 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.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience with a  focus on high-availability cloud services.

Desirable experience

• Experience taking a SaaS development 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.

 #LI-WS1 #Mid-Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are excited about building the future of transportation 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 an exceptional Staff-level 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 full-stack solutions including backend services, web apps, mobile apps, and real-time onboard code that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that drives the commercial side of our platform such as assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, managing a fleet of vehicles, and receiving orders from customers. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build are critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer you will join a team which builds solutions for autonomous vehicle terminal operations: launching and landing vehicles at locations owned by Aurora and its largest customers. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield completely new ones. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way terminal 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 stakeholder teams within Aurora.
• Embrace AI tools to add new features which delight our users, along with improving frontend, backend, and onboard engineering efficiency.
• 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 scale our products 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.

You will be a good fit if you have

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software with people and for 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.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience with a  focus on high-availability cloud services.

Desirable experience

• Experience taking a SaaS development 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.

 #LI-WS1 #Mid-Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

We’re searching for a Senior software engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Data Management team. The Vehicle Data Management Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Architect and implement on-vehicle/offload + cloud data systems that scale to hundreds of PB of multimodal data (sensor/log/sim/ML datasets).
• Improve reliability and performance of offline data workflows: throughput, latency, and discoverability (indexing/metadata/search).
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and operational patterns that make data pipelines  evolve and scale.
• Own key services end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, on-call/operations, observability, and incident response).
• Partner directly with stakeholders across onboard systems, autonomy, ML, and infrastructure to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $162,000 - $260,000 per Year. 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.

 #LI-#Mid-Senior 

Bringing self-driving vehicles to our roads is the most transformative opportunity of our generation. Aurora is taking a fresh start with the development of self-driving technology, combining excellence in AI, rigorous engineering, and a team with decades of experience building robots that work.

Led by a team of seasoned experts, our mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. We are designing the software and hardware to power the transportation of our future that will make our roads safer, give more people access to mobility, and reduce congestion and pollution in cities - improving the quality of life for all. The challenge in what we are endeavoring to achieve is transcendent; we are developing perhaps the world's most complex computing system and asking it to perform the task of transporting and keeping safe our most precious asset: human life.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Senior Incident Commander!

As a Senior Incident Commander, you are a specialist on the front lines of Aurora’s enterprise-wide technical incident response function. Your scope is expansive, encompassing not only our autonomous vehicle platform but also the critical on-vehicle systems, enterprise IT infrastructure, and the supporting Network and Security Operations Centers (NOC/SOC). This role is modeled after established emergency management frameworks, focusing on strong command and control during critical events that span this interconnected ecosystem.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will take operational leadership of the tactical response to complex, high-severity incidents across our software, hardware, IT, and cybersecurity domains. This is a critical, hands-on command role where you will leverage your deep operational expertise and command presence to orchestrate a multi-disciplinary response, make decisive real-time decisions, and coordinate all stakeholders to safely and efficiently resolve events.

You will act as a key member of the 24x7 Incident Management Team, not only managing active incidents but also designing and executing projects to proactively mature our response capabilities and observability.

In this role you will:

• Lead Incident Command: Lead as the Incident Commander by establishing command and control over technical cross-functional incidents. You will orchestrate response efforts, make decisive real-time decisions, and establish a common operating picture for all stakeholders.
• Manage Escalations & Stakeholders: Manage and prioritize escalations, ensuring targeted stakeholder representation (e.g., Software/Hardware, Cybersecurity, Network, IT, Legal, Ops, Safety, Policy, & Communications) throughout the incident lifecycle.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Lead thorough incident retrospectives to accurately document events and identify root causes. You will define actionable follow-ups and track their implementation to continuously enhance safety, efficiency, and overall incident response capabilities for our distributed team, ensuring lessons learned are integrated back into processes.
• Develop Cross-Functional Partnerships: Develop robust cross-functional partnerships to proactively understand stakeholder concerns during events. You will collaborate closely with a wide variety of technical teams, providing critical support and guidance during real-time incident response to maintain seamless 24/7 coverage.
• Deliver Executive Communications: Deliver executive-level communications on active incidents and present comprehensive analyses of important outcomes, trends, and strategic insights from past events to leadership and a global audience.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years of direct experience in a command-oriented role such as incident management, crisis response, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), NOC/SOC leadership, or military/first-responder operations, having served as an Incident Commander or lead responder for high-stakes technical events.
• Broad Technical Acumen: A strong, holistic understanding of the interconnectedness of complex systems, including on-vehicle compute, enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud services, Network Operations (NOC), and Security Operations (SOC). You don't need to be a subject matter expert in all areas, but you must be able to facilitate and drive technical conversations to successful outcomes.
• Familiarity with Monitoring & Observability: Understanding of the principles of monitoring and observability in complex, distributed systems. 
• Composure Under Pressure: Demonstrated capability to remain calm and decisive under pressure, efficiently coordinating response efforts and making sound judgments in rapidly evolving, high-stakes situations.
• Executive Briefing Skills: Experience briefing senior executives and leadership in real-time on complex, fast-moving incidents, articulating technical details, impact, and proposed resolutions clearly and concisely. Strong command and control presence.
• Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail with a track record of meticulously documenting incident timelines, contributing factors, and post-incident analysis to drive accurate reporting and continuous improvement.
• Availability: Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, demonstrating flexibility to cover shifts as part of a global incident response capability.

Desirable Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in a relevant field such as Emergency Management, Computer Science, Business, Operations, Law, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading crisis and incident response as an Incident Commander in a large-scale tech environment.
• Proven ability to effectively interact with and/or report to external stakeholders (e.g., regulatory agencies, and legal counsel).
• Experience in high tech and/or highly regulated industries such as Autonomous Vehicles, Maritime, Aviation, or similar sectors.
• Certifications or experience in command frameworks such as FEMA's National Incident Management System (NIMS/ICS), indicating a structured approach to incident handling.
• Experience with event mapping initiatives to enhance incident action planning and promote stakeholder coordination.

The base salary range for this position is $115,000 - $204,000 per year.  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.

 #LI-AM3

#Senior

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

We’re searching for a software engineer to join Aurora’s Data Platform. The Data Platform Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets, along with their life cycle management. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Contribute to the development of internal products and following best practices to simplify data retention. 
• Work on tasks to improve the log data availability, discoverability and end to end  lifecycle.
• Design efficient AV Log storage patterns that balance performance and affordability. Help drive the system efficiency by improving data hygiene across Aurora to deliver cost efficiency.
• Support software engineers across different teams and proactively working together with stakeholders on tasks to satisfy company OKR.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 1 year related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications 

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• Experience with DynamoDB / AWS Glue Catalog / AWS Athena
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $105,000 - $157,000 per Year. 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.

 #LI-#Entry-Level 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

We’re searching for a Senior software engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Data Management team. The Vehicle Data Management Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will

• Architect and implement on-vehicle/offload + cloud data systems that scale to hundreds of PB of multimodal data (sensor/log/sim/ML datasets).
• Improve reliability and performance of offline data workflows: throughput, latency, and discoverability (indexing/metadata/search).
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and operational patterns that make data pipelines  evolve and scale.
• Own key services end-to-end (design, implementation, rollout, on-call/operations, observability, and incident response).
• Partner directly with stakeholders across onboard systems, autonomy, ML, and infrastructure to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years related experience
• Required programming skills: GoLang/Python
• General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
• AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
• Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Proficiencies with coding in C++ 
• Proficiencies with Linux system 
• Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase 
• Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

The base salary range for this position is  $146,000 - $234,000 per Year. 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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