Staff Software Engineer - Core Services

• 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.

• 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.