Staff Software Engineer, Aurora
Release & Reliability Lead
$189-303k
Eligible for an annual bonus and equity
Self-driving technology company
Be an early applicant
Self-driving technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$189-303k
Eligible for an annual bonus and equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.
Role
Who you are
- Phenomenal communication skills. We build software for people. We build software with people
- You know how to write an effective technical spec, provide feedback to others, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback into your efforts
- You value and practice openness, empathy, kindness, and collaboration
- A preference for action
- You will use good judgment to balance speed and quality
- You will deliver products that are built in a responsible and sustainable way
- You will use a self-starter mentality to thrive in a growing environment where all hands are on deck, and consider no obstacle too big or too small
- You will notice where there is a need and will hustle to fill it
- The drive to make teams stronger
- You're excited to work hard and fast to the finish line on new opportunities with a collaborative and integrated team
- You will be proactive in engaging conflict with openness, patience and kindness in an environment where it is safe to lean on each other and learn from failures
- Experience working on large scale applications with proven track record of improving the reliability
- Experience leading projects and initiatives and drive them to closure
- Experience with building observability and familiarity with open telemetry, prometheus
- Experience building e2e testing frameworks for web services
- Experience with modern pipeline (ci/cd) building tools like buildkite
- A Bachelor’s/Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 10+ or more years of industry experience
Desirable
- Experience of modern infrastructure tooling like kubernetes, terraform
- Experience build backend services using modern object oriented languages like Golang
- Deep understanding of large scale systems with emphasis on reliability
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff level software engineer for release and reliability initiative for Aurora Services Engineering organization to play a critical role in improving the release process and reliability of our services and applications
- The Aurora Services Engineering team creates services and web applications that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale
- Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by human operators to coordinate the business side of our platform - evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, and managing a fleet of vehicles
- As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build will be critical to the efficient daily operation of our business
- Will be joining an impactful team in the Aurora Services organization to help improve the offboard release process tooling and reliability of the platform and critical services
- Collaborate with development teams on release procedures, with test-ops on weekly engineering release testing, and with infrastructure teams to automate release processes
- Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions, standardize log metrics and tracing for all ASE services
- Create and maintain end-2-end tests with an operations focus to improve product reliability and suggest and deploy reusable frameworks for API performance, chaos testing, and more
- Work with your teammates to establish new technologies and approaches to onboard and backend development as our stack matures
- Collaborate with product and other tech leads to help create a roadmap for release and reliability for Aurora Services
- Contribute to and evolve our team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence
Our take
In spite of emerging from stealth mode in 2018, Aurora is making strong waves in the flurry of startups racing to develop fully autonomous vehicles. Aurora’s hardware and software developments have focused historically on self-driving trucks, which it expects to launch commercially in 2024.
It recently named Ossa Fisher as its new President, who will focus on scaling operations ahead of this commercial launch. Passenger cars and associated services are expected to roll out following this launch. However, the self-driving industry is riddled with unmet deadlines, cash shortfalls, and tough technological challenges.
To remain competitive with deep-pocket industry giants like Tesla and Google’s Waymo, the company continues to land substantial backing from the likes of Sequoia Capital, accelerating its post-IPO growth. The pedigree of its founders may well continue to win over investor confidence. It boasts leading prior positions in the self-driving divisions of Tesla, Uber, and Google.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$600m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Choice of regional HMO options, PPO options, and high deductible plans, with the option to contribute to a health savings account (HSA). If you choose a high deductible health plan, Aurora will make employer contributions to your HSA
- Comprehensive dental coverage and access to a nationwide provider network
- Coverage for vision exams, glasses, contacts, discounts for LASIK, and other vision services through a nationwide provider network
- In-office lunches, snacks, and drinks available
- GymPass offers on-demand virtual classes (fitness, yoga, strength, and more), well-being coaching, and budget management. Discount on nationwide gym memberships
- Headspace offers access to guided sessions that focus on everything from stress to relationships, anxiety, and sleep
- SoFi. Refinance your home, student and personal loans
- Fetch offers discounts on pet insurance
- PerkSpot offers discounts on vacations, car rentals, and entertainment
- Access support services to help with your family planning journey including fertility care, adoption, and surrogacy. Reimbursement of $20,000 lifetime benefit
- Save for your future with Aurora’s 401(k) Plan. Pre-tax and Roth contribution options are available
- 24/7 access to online resources and unlimited phone consultations for stress, grief counseling, depression, and relationship conflicts (personal and professional), and limited in-person sessions
- Set aside pre-tax money to pay for qualified transit and commuter benefits
- Cigna travel accident insurance provided for business travel
- LinkedIn Learning is an e-learning resource to support professional development. Aurora Academy is an internal learning and development program designed to up-level our team by teaching skills that are essential to Aurora’s mission
- Modern Health is a mental wellness benefit that includes 14 sessions with a certified coach and 12 sessions with a therapist, if needed. Unlimited access to live provider- lead community circles, digital mediation, and more
- Flexible/reasonable vacation for salaried employees; accrual of 20 vacation days per year for non-exempt employees, 11 paid company holidays per year, and reasonable sick time to stay home, rest, and get better
- Network of employee-led groups that represent Aurorans, organized by cultural identity or collaborative purpose
- Aurora provides all new parents and caregivers 18 weeks of coordinated pay and time off for the birth or placement of a child. Up to 4 weeks of paid medical leave for your own personal illness or injury, or to care for a sick family member
- Set aside pre-tax money to pay for healthcare and dependent daycare expenses using FSA plans
- Company-paid premiums for life insurance (2x salary up to $500,000). Voluntary life & AD&D coverage for you and your dependents is available. Short-term disability benefits are 60% weekly benefit up to a max of $2,500 after a short waiting period. Long-term disability benefits are 60% of monthly salary to $10,000 after a waiting period. Option to enroll in voluntary life/AD&D insurance
- 24/7 access to Unum’s worldwide emergency travel assistance services for personal travel
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Chris Urmson
(CEO)They have a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon, and worked as a robotics research scientist at SAIC. They were CTO of Self-Driving Cars at Google.
Sterling Anderson
(CPO)They received a PhD in Robotics from MIT before co-founding Gimlet Systems. They were an Engagement Manager at McKinsey and Director of Autopilot Programs at Tesla.
Drew Bagnell
(Chief Scientist)They hold a Robotics PhD from Carnegie Mellon, where they are also an Associate Professor. They were Autonomy Architect and Perception Lead at Uber Advanced Technology Center. Held the position of CTO at Aurora for over 3 years.
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