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.

Team background: Our team owns the inner loop development experience at Cruise, from configuring cloud-based development environments, and hosting source code, to orchestrating code events, and defining the workflow for code search, coverage, and review. This consists of a combination of self-hosted vendor tools, as well as various in-house tools that streamline the code authoring inner loop for developers at Cruise.

 

Mission: To improve the developer productivity of engineers at Cruise through tools and services that streamline/automate their development workflows.

 

Role: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an extensive engineering background, with 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.

 

What you’ll be doing:

• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics

• 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

• Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the company, and create tooling which encourages these

• Mentor and grow engineers on the team

 

What you must have:

• 4+ years experience designing, building, and operating highly reliable production systems in the cloud

• Experience writing Go and grpc, or a desire to learn

• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & 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

• Passion for mentoring and growing junior developers

• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

 

Bonus Points!

• Experience working with GCP

• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience owning or contributing to Open Source projects

 

The salary range for this position is $142,800 - $210,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

• 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. (

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