Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Real-Time Fleet Ops

Aurora; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Aurora is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Aurora Services to scale safe autonomous driving. You will own major full-stack components, design APIs and data pipelines, and drive improvements for real-time fleet operations and operator workflows.

You will balance MVPs with scalable designs, mentor peers, and collaborate across operations, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure to deliver reliable software in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development, with a proven track record of owning and delivering key deliverables within large-scale full-stack systems.
• Experience designing, refactoring, and maintaining REST/gRPC APIs and microservices.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous requirements, break them down into actionable technical plans, and execute independently.

Responsibilities

• Own substantial full-stack software components and drive technical projects from ambiguous, high-level goals into fully defined, production-ready systems.
• Play a key role in the design and evolution of the team's software products, APIs, and data pipelines to support real-time fleet operations and operator workflows.
• Balance tradeoffs between short-term MVPs and scalable long-term software design, coordinating dependencies and work estimates to deliver critical operational functionality smoothly.
• Establish and guide team best practices for code quality, testing, performance optimization, and documentation, actively participating in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Serve as a primary point of contact and subject matter expert for core team components, consulting with interdisciplinary teams across operations, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure to align on deliverables.
• Identify bottlenecks in existing systems and independently drive meaningful improvements to overall code quality, performance, and system reliability.
• Advocate for new technologies or shared infrastructure across the company and help integrate them into the team's stack while onboarding and advising peers.

Skills

Full-stack development

REST API design

gRPC

Microservices

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Aurora is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Aurora Services to scale safe autonomous driving. You will own major full-stack components, design APIs and data pipelines, and drive improvements for real-time fleet operations and operator workflows.

You will balance MVPs with scalable designs, mentor peers, and collaborate across operations, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure to deliver reliable software in a fast-paced environment.