Mountain View, California, United States Hybrid USD 189,000 – 303,000 / year

Aurora Innovation is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Lead the OTI team as technical lead, shaping the strategic direction, execution, and long-term reliability of core compute infrastructure.
  • Design and refine the next-generation offline testing architecture to eliminate redundancy and improve cross-team alignment.
  • Collaborate with Test Creation and Test Drive teams to unify end-to-end test workflows from setup to reporting.
  • Streamline the complete test lifecycle to enhance performance, scalability, and precise failure attribution for faster debugging.
  • Take full ownership of critical shared OTI components, including ongoing maintenance and on-call responsibilities.
  • Manage key offline test modalities such as step code, workflow logic, and system health monitoring.
  • Develop and maintain essential OTI tooling, including test evaluation systems, API polling, result communication, and standardized pipeline templates.
  • Define and enforce data governance policies across the testing ecosystem, covering storage, lifecycle, write patterns, integrity, and lineage.
  • Identify use cases and lead feature design for new test modalities, evaluating single versus cross-modality approaches.
  • Oversee incident response for offline testing systems and maintain SOPs for pull requests, local development, verification, and releases.
  • Act as a central expert for large-scale compute performance, providing architectural guidance and optimization support to related teams.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus
  • Equity compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Small, focused team

Other

Safety is fundamental to all operations. Every employee is expected to actively uphold safety standards, contribute to a culture of trust, and support long-term organizational success by prioritizing safe work practices at all times.

Other

The company welcomes candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parental or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran or military status, or physical or mental disability. Applicants with criminal histories are considered in compliance with applicable laws. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities; contact careersiteaccommodations@aurora.tech for assistance.

Required Skills
AWSInfrastructureIncident ManagementDebugging
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Aurora Innovation
Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. 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.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 3 months ago