Mountain View, California Hybrid $212,000 - $340,000

Aurora Innovation is hiring a Senior Staff Tech Lead - Dispatching & Partner Integrations

About the Role

Shape the future of autonomous fleet operations by leading a critical engineering team focused on dispatching and external integrations. You'll design and implement backend systems that power real-time data exchange, optimize vehicle deployment, and enable seamless collaboration with key industry partners in the trucking ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with product, operations, and autonomy teams to deliver capabilities that enhance the safety, speed, and scalability of self-driving vehicle deployment.
  • Architect and deploy cloud-native services that support both real-time and batch data processing, enabling smarter fleet decisions and continuous system improvement.
  • Build highly available, low-latency APIs and data pipelines using modern distributed systems practices, ensuring reliability across diverse operational environments.
  • Lead the design of end-to-end systems in partnership with software, hardware, and infrastructure teams, ensuring alignment across technical domains.
  • Guide and develop senior engineers through technical mentorship, code reviews, and architectural discussions, raising the overall engineering standard.
  • Transform complex operational and autonomy data into intuitive tools and APIs that empower operators and improve system efficiency.

What We’re Looking For

  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • 8+ years of software development experience with a focus on large-scale backend systems.
  • Proven background in cloud services, distributed systems, and scalable API design.
  • Strong working knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticache, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions.
  • Production experience building gRPC services in Golang.
  • Leadership experience shaping technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team initiatives.
  • Exceptional communication skills—able to write clear technical specs, give constructive feedback, and explain complex ideas simply.
  • A proactive mindset: you identify gaps, take initiative, and balance speed with long-term maintainability.

Preferred Background

  • Work on safety-critical or mission-critical systems.
  • Onboard software development for robotics or autonomous vehicles using C++.
  • Experience with optimization algorithms or operations research.
  • Background in transportation, logistics, or time-sensitive operations.
  • Building fleet management platforms for robots, drones, or vehicles.
  • Delivering customer-facing software in production environments with real-world users.

Our Core Values

We prioritize safety, collaboration, and engineering excellence. We believe in open communication, empathy, and kindness as foundational to building great technology. Sustainable development and inclusive design guide how we create an accessible transportation future. If you’re driven by impact, thrive in ambiguity, and lead with integrity, you’ll find your place here.

Required Skills
AWSKubernetesElasticacheCI/CDmonitoring/alerting systemsgRPCGolangcloud infrastructuredistributed systemsAPI designDevOpsbackend systemsscalable web servicessoftware developmentsystem design AWSKubernetesElasticacheCI/CDmonitoring/alerting systemsgRPCGolangcloud infrastructuredistributed systemsAPI designbackend developmentDevOps
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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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Department Software Engineering
Category management
Posted 11 days ago