Senior Staff Tech Lead, Data Platforms

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Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.

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, transfer crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Data Platforms team.

In this role, you will

• Lead design and development of data systems (both on- and offline) dealing with hundreds of petabytes of multimodal sensor collections, autonomy simulations, and ML datasets
• Help us improve the discoverability, throughput, and latency of our multi-modal offline data
• Create internal products and best practices to help us become more efficient, transparent and innovative as we launch our commercial Aurora Driver product.
• Mentor and grow our engineering team with new perspectives, technologies and designs
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying customer-facing large-scale data management systems
• Experience with development and deployment of ML pipelines & infrastructure
• Proven leadership in product development and launch
• 8+ years of AWS infrastructure experience, including S3, Aurora, and SQS/SNS in a production environment
• 5+ years of Golang development experience
• 8+ years of C/C++ experience
• 8+ years of Python development experience
• 8+ years of RDBMS experience
  
  

The base range for this position is $212,000 - $340,000. 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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Working at Aurora

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