Senior Software Engineer II, Build Platform

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San Francisco, CA
143K-210K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Robotics • Transportation
We’re building self-driving vehicles to improve life in our cities. They’re safe, shared, and all-electric.
The Role

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

Build Platform owns creating the build system and tooling that supports our AV and AI developers.  We utilize Bazel in front of an in-house Remote Bazel Executor (RBE) and Content Addressable Storage (CAS) to provide a world-class build experience at Cruise.  Our team is constantly on the lookout for optimizations and new tooling that improves our product.


Our developers are heavy users of C++ and Python, and we are responsible for the toolchains, dynamic and static analyzers, tooling, and workflows that allow them to quickly write high quality code.  Improvements and optimizations by Build Platform have outsized impacts on the pace of Cruise development.


What you’ll be doing:

  • Design and implement improvements to our AV development toolchains, build system, and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity.

  • Collaborate with engineers across the company to understand and support their development workflow.

  • Own technical projects from start to finish and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs.

  • Effectively participate in team’s planning, code reviews and design discussions.

  • Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment where immediate impact is a result of your efforts and where your contribution is highly visible.

  • Drive software engineering best practices both within our team and across engineering.  Create tooling that encourages and supports these practices.

  • Conduct technical interviews with well-calibrated standards

  • Be a positive contributor to our team culture.


What you must have:

  • 5+ years experience, with work on large-scale build systems preferred

  • Experience working on developer tooling, build systems, C++, Python, etc.

  • Experience driving impactful projects independently

  • Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & systems around you

  • Have an understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs

  • Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world


Bonus Points!

  • Experience programming with C++ or Python

  • Experience with compiler toolchain integrations (Clang, GCC, NVCC, etc)

  • Experience supporting Python interpreters, and related tools (pyright, etc)

  • Experience with build systems such as Bazel or Buck

  • Experience with Docker

  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure


  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
  • Fertility benefits
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
  • Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
  • Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
  • CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).

  • Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

  • GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

No Application Deadline

The Company
San Francisco, CA
2,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.

Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings.

Together, we believe our world-class partners, deep resources, and technology approach of testing in a complex urban environment will help to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale.

Why Work With Us

Your work on all-electric, self-driving vehicles will save lives, help the planet, and make cities better. It’s something to be proud of...and it’s career-defining work.

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