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Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
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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 are looking for a Staff level software engineer for release and reliability initiative for Aurora Services Engineering organization to play a critical role in improving the release process and reliability of our services and applications.
The Aurora Services Engineering team creates services and web applications that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by human operators to coordinate the business side of our platform - evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, and managing a fleet of vehicles. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build will be critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.
In this role, you will
- Will be joining an impactful team in the Aurora Services organization to help improve the offboard release process tooling and reliability of the platform and critical services.
- Collaborate with development teams on release procedures, with test-ops on weekly engineering release testing, and with infrastructure teams to automate release processes.
- Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions, standardize log metrics and tracing for all ASE services
- Create and maintain end-2-end tests with an operations focus to improve product reliability and suggest and deploy reusable frameworks for API performance, chaos testing, and more
- Work with your teammates to establish new technologies and approaches to onboard and backend development as our stack matures.
- Collaborate with product and other tech leads to help create a roadmap for release and reliability for Aurora Services.
- Contribute to and evolve our team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Phenomenal communication skills. We build software for people. We build software with 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.
- Experience working on large scale applications with proven track record of improving the reliability
- Experience leading projects and initiatives and drive them to closure.
- Experience with building observability and familiarity with open telemetry, prometheus
- Experience building e2e testing frameworks for web services
- Experience with modern pipeline (ci/cd) building tools like buildkite.
- A Bachelor’s/Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ or more years of industry experience
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience of modern infrastructure tooling like kubernetes, terraform.
- Experience build backend services using modern object oriented languages like Golang
- Deep understanding of large scale systems with emphasis on reliability.
The base salary range for this position is $171K-$273K 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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Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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What We Do
Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. To move both people and goods, the company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, among others, and is partnered with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit aurora.tech.
Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and has partnerships with leading transportation companies including PACCAR, Uber, FCA, and Hyundai Group. It tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas and has offices in those cities as well as in Bozeman, Seattle, Denver, and Detroit.
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