Software Engineer II - Data Platforms

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering 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 is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

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 software engineer to join Aurora’s Core Ingestion Infra team. The Core Ingestion Infra Team is responsible for building data infrastructure and services to empower highly distributed and mission critical pipeline that centers around vehicle logs including sensors and telemetry data for analytics and downstream triaging.

In this role, you will

1. Design and build scalable distributed pipelines and gRPC service to extract, exploit logs and accelerate log exploration processing, monitor and debug sophisticated systems at scale.
2. Comfortable working with the PB scale of dataset (optical, lidar, and radar modalities) and abstraction layer of the storage system (S3, etc), championing engineering excellence by continuously optimizing the systems and processes with SLO/SLA in mind.
3. Leverage the cutting edge cloud technologies to own, architect, implement, and test scalable distributed data framework in the cloud.
4. Be a force multiplier across a diverse set of hardware and software engineers and proactively work together with stakeholders to achieve cross-departmental goals and satisfy company OKR.

Required Qualifications

1. BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
2. Minimum 3 years related experience
3. Required programming skills: C++
4. Required programming skills: GoLang
5. General knowledge of backend software systems networking, load balancing, API gateways, system security, gRPC services.
6. AWS infrastructure experience, including S3 and DynamoDB in a production commercial system
7. Knowledge of database design, database management and database scalability.
8. Knowledge about workflow orchestration pipeline - Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling.
9. Comfortable working with Cloud Native services.
10. Comfortable with Linux/other unix environments.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Experience with large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures
2. A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
3. Ability to navigate and work efficiently in large codebase
4. Strong software development background demonstrated by industry experience in building platforms that serve AV development and commercialization.

Working at Aurora

At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together — all without any jerks.

We have offices in several locations across the United States, where we encourage team and cross-functional collaboration. Aurora offers competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, and additional healthcare support including medical transportation reimbursement, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. We empower our employees and their families with options to further their unique physical, mental, and financial well-being.

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