Senior Tech Lead Manager - Core Cloud Services

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We are searching for an exceptional Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager to join the Aurora Services Engineering team and take on a critical leadership role in building Aurora's suite of fleet management tools.

The Aurora Services Engineering team creates solutions—including backend services, web apps, mobile apps, and real-time onboard code—that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale.

Our mission is to build the software that drives the commercial side of our platform, such as assigning work to autonomous vehicles, providing remote support, managing fleets, and ingesting orders from enterprise customers.

As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with major logistics partners on an API level, the tools we build are critical to the efficient, daily operation of our business.

As the Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager for the Core Cloud Services team, you will lead a team of 8–10 engineers to own the design, implementation, and operation of high-availability solutions for Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Management with some of the biggest companies in the trucking industry.

In this role, you will lead as a "player‑coach"—staying close to the technical details through designs, code reviews and at times hands‑on coding while driving both incremental features and greenfield systems from the ground up. You will champion engineering excellence by ensuring our distributed cloud services achieve mission‑critical reliability, while proactively guiding the team in adopting modern agentic coding workflows to accelerate developer velocity as AI tooling evolves.

In this role, you will

Technical Ownership & Hands-On Contribution:
Architect, design, and operate real-time and offline cloud backend services for fleet optimization, task assignment, and remote support.

Maintain active technical engagement by participating in code reviews and writing production code as needed.

High Reliability & Availability Engineering:
Ensure all core cloud services are architected, deployed, and operated for maximum uptime, fault tolerance, resilient disaster recovery, and high availability (HA) to support mission‑critical, continuous fleet operations.

Modernization & AI Integration:
Actively guide and upskill the team on adopting agentic coding tools and workflows as the AI development ecosystem continues to evolve.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, Hardware/Autonomy teams, and external logistics/trucking partners.

Execution & Excellence:
Maintain high engineering standards, drive end‑to‑end execution, balance speed vs. technical debt, and ensure operational readiness across all services.

People Leadership:
Conduct 1:1s, career pathing, performance reviews, and foster a team culture grounded in empathy, ownership, and continuous learning.

Education & Experience:

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience), with 10+ years of total software engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers.

Cloud Architecture & High Availability:
Deep technical expertise in cloud backend development, distributed systems, scalable web services,…