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:
 

• Build platforms, services, or tools that enable engineers to deliver operationally mature services in production

• Help teams with automating tedious tasks and enable them to quickly launch new services and execute optimally

• Work with service owners to have a proactive approach to designing tests, observing results and creating fixes for complex failure scenarios.

• Help service owners  identify and instrument Service Level Objectives and design alerts that follow best practices

• Facilitate blameless postmortems and drive effective action items
   

What you must have: (These are must-haves; skills that someone must have entering the role on day 1 and required for hiring)
 

• Senior level experience as an Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Production Engineer

• Significant Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Google Cloud Platform,  Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services

• Fluent with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python or Java

• Ability to debug and optimize code 

• Experience with Incident Management platforms like Firehydrant

• Ability to coordinate and manage incident response

• Skills in defining  and instrumenting SLOs and SLIs using query languages and observability tooling

• Automate tasks and processes with open source tools

• Streaming and Database technologies such as Postgres, Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, etc.

Bonus points!  

• Previous experience as an SRE or System Engineer

• Previous Experience with Firehydrant

• Previous experience with Backstage or another Developer Experience tool

• Familiarity with Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other Configuration Management Tooling

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Istio, Terraform, Vault, Google Cloud

The salary range for this position is $122,400 - $180,000. 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. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).

We’re Integrated

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

We’re Funded

• 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.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being them