Job Description
The Senior Backend Software Engineer at Aurora is responsible for designing and building scalable backend services and tools that support autonomous vehicle fleet management, ensuring efficient, reliable, and safe operations in a cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop backend services and systems to support autonomous vehicle fleet operations.
- Build and maintain cloud-based infrastructure for monitoring and managing the autonomous fleet.
- Implement real-time communication and data exchange with autonomous vehicles to ensure safe operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to add new features, improve existing products, and scale solutions.
- Contribute to the development of terminal operations for launching and landing autonomous vehicles.
- Establish scalable, high-availability, and reliable technology infrastructure.
- Engage with stakeholders to meet operational, safety, and product milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5 or more years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Experience designing complex systems from the ground up, working closely with software, hardware, and infrastructure engineering teams along with other stakeholder teams within Aurora.
- Strong backend service engineering skills using modern technologies including Golang, Python, C, gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Experience working with databases and caches such as Postgres and Redis.
- Experience building backend services running in cloud environments, specifically AWS.
- Ability to establish technology and infrastructure to scale products with high availability and reliability.
- Experience contributing to and evolving team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
- Excellent communication skills, including writing effective technical specifications, providing feedback, translating technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporating feedback.
- A self-starter mentality with the ability to thrive in a growing environment where all hands are on deck, and no obstacle is too big or small.
- Proactive engagement in product lifecycle management, including understanding customer needs, ensuring development stays on course through release and post-release support.
- Experience working with external customer-facing software, including production rollout with real customers.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: 162,000 - 260,000 USD
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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