Remote Platform Engineer: Code Review & Quality Assurance

AuraOne; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform Engineering for a remote contractor role focused on evaluating production code, debugging traces, and AI outputs against correctness standards. You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes so the modeling team can target gaps.

Strong coding, testing, and reasoning are essential; prior code-review experience is a plus. This role is remote with US eligibility and part-time contractor commitment through AuraOne.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Software Engineer, Platform Engineering work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework. pytest, Jest, or JUnit. Go test, RSpec, or whatever you use.
• Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Software Engineer, Platform Engineering assignments.
• Grade cloud & platform engineering solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering judgment

Cloud & platform engineering

Software engineering

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Job description

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform Engineering for a remote contractor role focused on evaluating production code, debugging traces, and AI outputs against correctness standards. You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes so the modeling team can target gaps.

Strong coding, testing, and reasoning are essential; prior code-review experience is a plus. This role is remote with US eligibility and part-time contractor commitment through AuraOne.