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.

Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

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.

If you are looking to solve one of today’s most complex engineering challenges, see the results of your work in hundreds of self-driving cars, and make a positive impact in the world starting in our cities, join us. 

You will leverage deep understanding of user needs to help define, design and build products that are in line with Cruise’s mission and strategy. You will play a key role in designing, building and implementing technological solutions that enable Cruise engineers to contribute to Cruise's overall security posture and solve complex security problems. You must be a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment – which means wearing many hats, being able to change direction quickly, and showing an eagerness to learn and introduce new technologies as the need arises.

This position does have the possibility of being remote.

What you'll be doing:

• Building and operating services that improve the security of our product and organization

• Leading architecture and major design decisions that will affect our infrastructure and our product

• Maintaining and building interdisciplinary skills through research, experimentation, and exploration

• Designing and implementing security controls in multi-cloud environments

• Mentoring other team members

• Consulting with leadership on cloud security architecture decisions that will affect Cruise for years to come

• Creating, deploying, analyzing, and refactoring our infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code tools, (e.g., Terraform)

• Assisting engineering in the deployment of services and applications and creating a secure-by-default environment

What you must have:

• You've operated and have an in-depth understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms, (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• You have experience using infrastructure-as-code tools, (e.g., Terraform)

• You have experience working with modern development and deployment workflows (containerization, container orchestration, CI/CD etc.)

• You possess strong security fundamentals and have solid threat modeling and security architecture skills

• Experience writing performant, maintainable, testable code in at least one of the following: Go, Rust, Python, or Node.js

• You have experience working with data at scale and real time processing. (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)

• BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, Physics, or equivalent real-world experience

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

• Attention to detail and a passion for correctness

Bonus points!

• Experience scaling back-end systems

• Experience with or an understanding of modern authentication and authorization protocols and concepts, (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, WebAuthn/FIDO2, Zero Trust)

• Experience participating in an on-call rotation for global, critical services

• Experience with secrets management systems, (e.g., Vault)

• Experience with applied cryptography

• Experience building and operating a service mesh, (e.g., Istio)

The salary range for this position is $197,600 - 290,400. 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 Ca