Aurora Innovation is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure to lead a new team dedicated to stabilizing and modernizing our critical Offline Testing Infrastructure (OTI). This is a high-impact, high-urgency role focused on improving engineering velocity and release reliability.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the technical lead for the OTI team within PIE-Compute, driving the strategic vision, execution, and long-term stability of the core infrastructure.
- Lead the design of the next-generation offline testing architecture to meet diverse team needs and reduce redundancy.
- Partner with Test Creation and Test Drive teams to standardize end-to-end test execution and reporting.
- Refine the full test lifecycle to ensure performance, scalability, and clear attribution of failures.
- Take ownership of shared OTI components, including maintenance and on-call support.
- Own various offline test Modalities, including step code, workflow code, and general health.
- Lead the maintenance and development of common OTI tooling for launching tests, polling APIs, communicating results, and providing pipeline templates.
- Define and enforce data management policies for the testing ecosystem.
- Define use cases and feature design for new test modalities.
- Manage incidents related to offline tests and maintain Standard Operating Procedures.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for optimizing the architecture and performance of Aurora's largest compute use case.
- Provide high-value consulting and architecture support to adjacent teams.
What We're Looking For
- Senior or Staff-level experience (P7 equivalent) as a Software Engineer, ideally in infrastructure, developer tooling, or critical shared services.
- Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring or directing other engineers.
- Familiarity with distributed compute technologies, cloud services like AWS, and large-scale workflow management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to triage, debug, and perform on-call and incident management for complex, cross-cutting infrastructure issues.
- Strong communication skills to manage stakeholder alignment and drive cross-team standardization efforts.
Technical Stack
- AWS
- Large-scale workflow management systems
- Distributed compute technologies
Team & Environment
You will lead the small, focused OTI team within PIE-Compute.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $189,000 - $303,000 per year
- Equity compensation
- Annual bonus
- Benefits
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position.
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.
