Platform Software Engineer

Platform Software Engineer

Department: Tech - Model & Platform Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Oxford, UK

Description

Aurora helps governments, investors, and utilities make billion‑dollar decisions on the journey to net‑zero. Based in Oxford, you will work in a dynamic and growing engineering organisation that builds cloud-based software to track and model power grids around the world.

Aurora's models produce some of the most data-intensive outputs in the energy industry - half-hourly, generator-level simulations across 30-year horizons. As a Software Engineer in the platform team, you will build and own the scaling infrastructure that runs these models in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible, using TypeScript, Python, MySQL and a variety of AWS products.

You will work in a small, fast-paced team that releases changes multiple times a day. The success...