Software Engineer - Platform

📍 Location

New York (On-site - Relocation required)

💰 Salary

$200K – $440K + Equity

🛂 Visa Sponsorship

Available

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About Aurora

Aurora helps top engineers discover opportunities at some of the most ambitious startups worldwide.
We work closely with companies to identify exceptional talent and match them with roles where they can have real impact.

We are currently helping Aaru expand their engineering team.

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ABOUT AARU

Aaru operates at the bleeding edge of predictive intelligence, using AI to simulate and predict human behavior at scale. By generating and deploying instances of artificial intelligence that mirror humans, called agents, Aaru simulates entire populations with unprecedented accuracy.

Our partners work with us for many reasons: they leverage Aaru to refine strategy in volatile geopolitical climates, cut new product innovation timelines from months to minutes, and deploy marketing campaigns that win in an era where consumers have never been harder to understand.

We provide organizations with invaluable foresight, empowering them to anticipate outcomes and proactively make the right decisions at the right time, every time.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Platform engineer at Aaru, you will design and build the foundation that the rest of our product is built on.

The Platform engineering team owns the question, “How can Aaru help our customers embrace change?”

You’ll work on highly-leveraged features that enable organizations to work with Aaru’s simulation technology and partner with the Research team to advance its impact across our customers.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and advance the platform to force multiply our product capabilities
• Identify patterns across user needs and product to 10x our simulation software’s impact
• Write framework-level code that absorbs complexity for users and agents

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TECH STACK

TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Rust, Linear, Sentry

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YOU MAY BE A FIT IF

• You love to ask questions while building something great
• You make things simpler than they seem
• You’ve experienced the push and pull between building “right” and “fast”
• You’ve worked on products that serve users with a wide range of technical competency
• You’re not afraid to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes

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STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO

• Have experience building developer products or platforms
• Have launched or built a great product themselves

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How We Engineer

We work within a large monorepo, aptly named aaru. This repository houses our internal platform, utility tools (e.g., our data search engine and LLM-management services), and simulation platform.

Engineers collaborate across the stack and have opportunities to work with Research, Product & Design, and customer engagements.

We use standard tooling such as GitHub, Linear, Sentry, and Incident.io. Our codebase is primarily Python and TypeScript, with Rust for performance sensitive areas.

Proficiency in all three languages is not required to be a productive team member.

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LOCATION

This role is based in New York City. Aaru is an in-person company and during this exciting period of hypergrowth, we work 6 days a week in office.

Candidates are expected to be located within the New York City metropolitan area or open to relocation.

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BENEFITS

At Aaru, we take care of our people.

In addition to a competitive base salary and equity participation, we offer:

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support
• Various other benefits and perks

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Culture & Values

We're a small, dedicated, mission-driven team and we intend to stay that way.

We believe the best work happens when exceptionally talented people are given ownership, trust and the space to operate without bureaucratic friction.

We work with urgency and intellectual honesty and expect new team members to match our velocity.

We seek individuals who:

• Thrive at the frontier
• Push beyond conventional limits
• Bring curiosity and conviction in equal measure
• Want their work to have demonstrable impact in the world

If you're energized by the idea of a small team doing things that feel impossible, let’s build together.