Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Go

Aurora; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Aurora is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Platform team. You will drive upgrades to Kubernetes infrastructure and build developer-facing tooling that increases velocity and reliability.

You will collaborate with teams across the company to gather requirements, write production code in Go/Python/C++, and apply IaC practices with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD. This hybrid role supports teams in Seattle, Mountain View, and San Francisco with a salary range of $162,000–$260,000

Qualifications

• 5+ years demonstrated experience shipping commercial products and services, preferably in Go.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS/EKS preferred).
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals.
• Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
• Experience writing production code in Go, Python, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Drive and manage upgrades and improvements to Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build developer-facing tooling to improve development velocity.
• Collaborate with teams across the company to gather requirements and drive projects forward.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Kubernetes

AWS/EKS

Tools

Terraform

Ambassador/Envoy/Istio

ArgoCD/Helm

Grafana/Observability

AI coding tools

Job description

Aurora is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Platform team. You will drive upgrades to Kubernetes infrastructure and build developer-facing tooling that increases velocity and reliability.

You will collaborate with teams across the company to gather requirements, write production code in Go/Python/C++, and apply IaC practices with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD. This hybrid role supports teams in Seattle, Mountain View, and San Francisco with a salary range of $162,000–$260,000