What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Data Platforms position at Aurora?
Who We Are
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.
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 software engineer to join Aurora's Data Curation team. The Data Curation Team is responsible for management, optimization, and curation of our autonomy data- vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that effectively curates logs based on their life cycles, ensuring cost efficiency while meeting retention policies.
In this role, you will
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.
To learn more about life at Aurora please visit our company culture page.
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.
At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.
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 software engineer to join Aurora's Data Curation team. The Data Curation Team is responsible for management, optimization, and curation of our autonomy data- vehicle logs, sims, models, and training sets. The ideal candidate will design and implement systems that effectively curates logs based on their life cycles, ensuring cost efficiency while meeting retention policies.
In this role, you will
- Oversee the development and enhancement of a comprehensive Data Curation system for managing log data within Amazon S3. Establish automated workflows to ensure compliance with retention policies for data management.
- Implement mechanisms for the permanent deletion of data in accordance with retention timelines.
- Design and optimize user interfaces that empower end-users to manage log retention preferences.
- Comfortable working with the PB scale of dataset (optical, lidar, and radar modalities) and abstraction layer of the storage system (S3, etc), championing engineering excellence by continuously optimizing the systems and processes with SLO/SLA in mind.
- Leverage the cutting edge cloud technologies to own, architect, implement, and test scalable distributed data framework in the cloud.
- 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.
- BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum 3 years related experience
- Required programming skills: C
- Required programming skills: GoLang
- 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
- 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.
Aurora considers candidates without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law. Aurora considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech.
For California applicants, information collected and processed as part of your application and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Aurora’s California Employment Privacy Policy.
To learn more about life at Aurora please visit our company culture page.
