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.
The developer productivity organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at Cruise use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhance the entire development process of engineers at Cruise — how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.
To improve the developer productivity of engineers at Cruise through tools and services that streamline/automate their development workflows.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and is able to effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.
The way this engineer will deliver impact may vary depending on the situation but they will be expected to be able to identify how they can best have impact with minimal guidance.
- Identify engineering pain points and propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
- Influence the team’s technical roadmap
- Evaluate new tools and technologies through PoCs
- Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics
- Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the company, and create tooling which encourages these
- Help steer the engineering culture on the team
- Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization
- Set the example for high levels of accountability
- Execute and deliver impact both individually and through the team
- Set strong boundaries when selecting external requests and pushing back on requests that do not align with our team vision
- GoLang
- Python
- gRPC
- SSH
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Linux
- Buildkite
- GCP
- OpenTelemetry
- 7+ years experience designing, building and operating production systems at scale in the cloud.
- Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services.
- Experience writing Go, Python, or other language at production scale
- Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals
- Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes and systems around you
- Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team
- Ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals and take critical feedback
- Ability to effectively make trade-offs and communicate the reasoning
- Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work effectively under pressure
- Passion for mentoring and growing junior developers
- Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
- Experience working with GCP
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience owning or contributing to Open Source projects
- 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.
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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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