Aurora
Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager - Core Cloud Services
$191K–$340K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA - Experience
- 10+ years total software engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering management leading teams of 5+ engineers.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads an 8–10-person engineering team building and operating reliable cloud services for autonomous vehicle fleet management, while contributing hands-on and guiding adoption of agentic coding workflows.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and operate cloud services for fleet optimization, task assignment, and remote support, with a focus on high availability and resilience.
- Provide technical leadership through design, code reviews, production coding, engineering standards, and end-to-end execution.
- Manage and mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, hardware/autonomy teams, and external partners.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering management leading teams of 5+ engineers.
- Expertise in cloud backend development, distributed systems, scalable web services, modern API design, and operating high-availability services.
- Experience delivering customer-facing software and production API integrations, including enterprise rollouts; hands-on technical leadership and experience guiding teams in modern developer tooling and agentic coding workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience in transportation, logistics, or other time-sensitive operations; safety- or mission-critical applications.
- Experience with fleet management solutions for Robots, Vehicles or Aerial Drones.
Pay
$212,000 - $340,000 per year (base salary; Mountain View, CA); $191,000 - $306,000 per year (base salary; Pittsburgh, PA)
AI focus
Guide and upskill the team in adopting agentic coding tools and workflows.
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