Director of Software Engineering, Data Platforms
AuroraPosted April 22, 2025
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Electric Vehicles$223,000 - $320,000
Full Time
Job Description
The Director of Data Platform at Aurora is responsible for setting the strategic vision and technical roadmap for the company's data platform, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization while leading a diverse team to build reliable systems that support autonomy developers.
Responsibilities
- •Set the strategic vision and technical roadmap for the Data Platform.
- •Drive technical excellence and innovation in software development and data architecture.
- •Build a Data for AI, including data discovery and dataset generation.
- •Lead a diverse team including Tools and Visualization, Autonomy Data, and Data Analytics.
- •Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Data Science.
- •Attract and hire industry-leading engineers and operations staff.
Requirements
- •Demonstrated success in building and leading teams responsible for large-scale data platforms and/or infrastructure.
- •Proven experience managing high-performing engineering teams and growing engineers and managers to senior levels.
- •Experience in distributed systems, data infrastructure, modern data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, BigQuery, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
- •Exceptional strategic thinking with the ability to align technical solutions with organizational goals.
- •Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the company and lead multiple software engineering teams.
- •Previous experience as a lead technical engineer, with a demonstrated ability to dig into complex technical challenges.
- •Ability to build and grow teams.
Benefits
- •Base salary range: 223,000 - 320,000 per year
- •Annual bonus
- •Equity compensation
- •Benefits
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