Aurora Innovation
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform
$146K–$260K
Seattle, WA +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA - Experience
- 5+ years shipping commercial products and services.
About the job
Build and maintain Aurora’s cloud infrastructure and development platform, improving Kubernetes systems and developer tooling.
What you'll do
- Drive upgrades and improvements to Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Build developer-facing tooling and infrastructure using knowledge of Kubernetes internals.
- Coordinate with company teams to gather requirements and support and advance projects.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience shipping commercial products and services, preferably in Go.
- Cloud infrastructure experience; AWS/EKS preferred.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals and experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
- Production coding experience in at least one of Go, Python, or C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, managed ingress solutions, Kubernetes ecosystem tools, or observability platforms.
- Professional experience using AI coding assistance and agents; AV industry experience.
Pay
USD 162,000 - USD 260,000 per year (base pay; Seattle, WA, Mountain View, CA, and San Francisco, CA); USD 146,000 - USD 234,000 per year (base pay; Pittsburgh, PA)
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, AWS, EKS, Python, C++, Terraform, ArgoCD
AI focus
Preferred experience using AI coding assistance and agents in a professional environment.
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