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.

What you’ll be doing:

• Be a solver or an architect in one or more of our groups

• Lead technology and architecture decisions, including originating and assessing technical designs, and communicating design with engineers, partners and executives

• Uphold a high technical bar, and drive high quality engineering practices across our department and Cruise

• Having vision and identifying strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements

• Raise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies and developer productivities, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring

• Work collaboratively to establish and execute on large, multi-team programs

• Work with engineer managers and engineers, mentoring, coaching and growing them to help you accomplish the team’s goals

• Work with our product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers

What you must have:

• 12+ years as a lead developer or architect.

• Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full stack web services in a production environment

• The ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions.

• Serving as a role model and mentor for others on acting with good judgment and responsibility

• Broad knowledge of cloud computing platforms like GCP, Azure and AWS,  API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA and/or microservice-based architectures, datastores types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development tech such as React

• Excellent written communication skills. Your ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs will be shared with other senior engineers, partners, and the company's leadership.

• Strong product sense. You are aware of the value proposition of the products you are building.You must also have an execution-mindset, looking to deliver the most minimalist MVP, which can deliver the highest value for the company (ala lean product)

• A passion for self-driving technology and its impact on the world

Bonus points!

• Prior experience of building large scale developer platform,  productivity tools and workflows

• Prior AV experience

• Experience or interest in ML, embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics

The salary range for this position is $184,500 - $271,200. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks available for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style