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.

We are looking for a hardworking Senior Software Engineer to design and develop full stack features and improvements for the Remote Assistance system. In this role you will work closely with teams across Cruise to build tools, visualizations, user interfaces and back end services. You’ll build technologies that will help Cruise change transportation.

Remote Assistance demonstrates human intuition to support autonomous vehicles in complicated situations. Remote Assistance engineering is a full-stack team of frontend, backend, and AV engineers that develop the software systems for this capability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop full stack features across our front end application and back end services.

• Identity and implement improvements to testing and automation.

• Measure and improve performance in all layers of the stack.

• Extend and improve distributed and fault tolerant services.

• Drive standard methodologies for backend deployment, monitoring, and traceability.

What you must have:

• Experience building frontends using React, Redux, WebGL and similar libraries.

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, ES6+, and dynamic frontend fundamentals.

• Experienced with Golang, Java or C++.

• Experience building, deploying, and operating high availability services.

• Experience handling container-based workloads using Kubernetes or other orchestration software.

• Experience with Google Cloud or AWS.

• Experience with REST APIs, GRPC and websockets.

• Passionate about self-driving technology and its impact.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or equivalent real-world experience.

Bonus Points!

• Knowledge of video streaming and network performance.

• Deep understanding of network performance and protocol design.

• Experience with Three.js or related technologies.

• Experience with Docker development and deployment workflows.

• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.

• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)

• Master’s degree in Computer Science.

The salary range for this position is $139,000 - $204,300. 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 that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here

• We’re Integrated

• Through our partnerships with General Motors