Staff Software Engineer - Vehicle Data Management

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 Staff Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Data Management team. The Vehicle Data Management Team is responsible for offloading, ingesting and scaling data through various pipelines, including autonomy sensor data, vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that efficiently work for both physical offloaders and cloud, and also be an effective liaison between onboard system to cloud system.

In this role, you will:

• Lead design and scaling of various 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
• 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

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

 

Desirable Qualifications 

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

The base salary range for this position is $189,000.00-$303,000.00 per year.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s startin