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Senior Software Engineer

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Seattle, WA
Senior level
Seattle, WA
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build tools for developer happiness, maintain cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with teams to drive projects.
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Who We Are

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.

At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

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’re searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Cloud team. The Cloud team is responsible for building and maintaining Aurora’s cloud infrastructure and development platform.

In this role, you will

  • Build developer-facing tooling and infrastructure that creates developer happiness and improves development velocity
  • Build self-service observability tools and services that enable developers to debug and support web services
  • Work with teams across the company to gather requirements, gather support and drive projects forward

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years demonstrated experience shipping commercial products and services, preferably in Go.
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
  • Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes
  • Experience writing production code in one of three languages: Go, Python, C++

Desirable Qualifications

  • Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
  • Managed ingress solutions (Ambassador, Envoy, Istio, etc)
  • Experience with observability platforms and tools (Grafana, Distributed Tracing, etc)
  • AV industry experience

The base range for this position is $146,000 - $210,000.  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 careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.

For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.

To learn more about life at Aurora please visit our company culture page. 

Top Skills

AWS
C++
Go
Grafana
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform

Aurora Seattle, Washington, USA Office

1411 4th St, Suite #1100, Seattle, WA, United States, 98101

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