Senior Applications Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br><a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://aurora.tech/aurora-driver" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://aurora.tech/aurora-driver" data-sk="tooltip_parent">The Aurora Driver</a> will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit <a href="https://aurora.tech/" target="_blank">aurora.tech</a> or follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/auroradriver" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p> <p>Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.</p> <p>This isn't a standard administration role. We are looking for a highly technical <strong>Senior Application Engineer</strong> who deeply understands application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and custom application software development.</p> <p>You will join a small, agile team with the mandate to own our critical enterprise applications end-to-end. You don't necessarily need to know our specific vendor tools on day one; instead, you need the architectural fundamentals to rapidly learn any application, look under the hood, and design bulletproof integrations that weave them together into a highly secure, fault-tolerant digital thread.</p> <p><strong>In this role you will</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Application Architecture & Ownership:</strong> Own the end-to-end health, infrastructure, and deployment architecture for our mission-critical enterprise applications. You will manage the underlying stack, including AWS (EC2/S3), application servers (e.g., Tomcat), and relational databases.</li> <li><strong>Reliable Integrations & ETL:</strong> Design and build robust integrations across our