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Tech Lead- Backend Software Engineer

Aurora
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted November 20, 2025
$212k - $340k
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Job Description

The role involves leading the development of scalable backend systems and APIs for autonomous vehicle fleet management, collaborating with cross-functional teams to build solutions that enable safe, efficient, and large-scale autonomous vehicle operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of scalable cloud backend services and APIs for fleet management and autonomous vehicle operations.
  • Architect and build real-time and offline data pipelines to support fleet optimization and autonomy improvements.
  • Design complex, high-availability systems from the ground up in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, and operational stakeholders to deliver solutions that enhance fleet efficiency and safety.
  • Mentor and grow engineering team members, ensuring technical excellence through code reviews and design discussions.
  • Translate operational data and autonomy metrics into actionable insights via operator-facing tools and APIs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of industry experience in software development, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale backend systems.
  • Deep expertise in cloud backend development, including scalable web services, distributed systems, and modern API design.
  • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices such as AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticache, CI/CD, and monitoring alerting systems.
  • Experience building large-scale gRPC services in Golang.
  • Experience in a leadership role, including driving technical strategy, influencing architectural decisions, and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Experience defining technical roadmaps and driving long-term strategic projects that span multiple engineering teams.
  • Phenomenal communication skills, including the ability to write effective technical specifications, provide feedback, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback.
  • Ability to partner with Product Managers, Designers, Autonomy, and Operations Stakeholders to deliver solutions quickly, safely, and broadly.
  • Experience designing and building scalable cloud backend services that power real-time and offline data flows for fleet optimization, autonomy improvement, and commercial operations.
  • Experience developing and deploying robust, well-engineered solutions leveraging modern cloud technologies to build highly available, low-latency backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
  • Ability to translate complex operational data and autonomy metrics into actionable insights through scalable operator-facing tools and APIs.
  • Strong collaboration skills with Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure engineering teams.
  • Experience with safety and mission-critical applications (desirable).
  • Experience in onboard C development for autonomous vehicles or other robotics (desirable).
  • Experience in operations research or optimization algorithms (desirable).
  • Experience in transportation, logistics, or other time-sensitive operations (desirable).
  • Experience with fleet management solutions for Robots, Vehicles, or Aerial Drones (desirable).
  • Experience with external customer-facing software, including production rollout with real customers (desirable).

Benefits & Perks

Base salary range: 212,000 - 340,000 USD
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)

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