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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, join us.

For this role we are seeking software engineers with a deep expertise in the software quality domain. Mapping team is looking for the first SDET to join the team and to improve the overall quality of our services and system. This role focuses on providing ground-up solutions that improve the quality of our mapping organization’s products and services, either through solving an individual quality challenge or driving team wide improvements. In this position, you will work closely with the engineering teams to lead the development of test strategies, test tooling/framework, and validation processes to help Cruise change transportation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Advocating for quality during the entire software development process, choosing the optimal testing techniques and tools to solve complex problems

• Developing cross-product testing programs and infrastructure that allow us to measure product quality including tools for functional, load and resiliency testing

• Develop the roadmaps and lead the execution of overall test strategy for the mapping ecosystem

• Set up, configure, and maintain test environments in collaboration with SRE and Quality partners at Cruise.

• Build tools to enhance and enable statistical analysis of quality.

You should apply for this role if you have the following qualifications:

• 8-10 years of development experience as a SDET/ Automation Engineer

• Experience in domain of high availability and scalable microservices, distributed systems with heavy data loads, and common cloud platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure

• Excellent programming skills. Preferably in Javascript / Node.js, Python and C++

• Experience developing or automating for full stack applications

• Experience with test tooling in the Javascript, Python

• Proven experience in architecting and building a test framework from scratch.

• 2+ years of experience writing and implementing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents.

• Experience with Docker-based workloads using Kubernetes or other orchestration software 

Bonus Points

• Experience developing testing strategies/frameworks for geospatial data and perception sensor (lidar, rgb) data  processing pipelines

• Experience testing asynchronous workflows

• Experience with React ecosystem or other web frontend frameworks

• Experience with continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines

• Logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies in order to maintain SLAs

• Experience with developing test strategies for sophisticated software systems scaling to millions of users,  with production-quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.

• Experience building test frameworks for distributed systems with distributed database systems and heavy data loads.

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 250,000. 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:
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• One Medical membership
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match 
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays. 
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks 
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working sty