Staff Security Software Engineer
Cruise LLCAbout the role
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.
Cruise’s Security Data team consists of several engineers who develop data and backend infrastructure to defend Cruise. This leadership role maintains broad scope and impact with VP-level visibility.
Security Data serves security and privacy teams with capabilities to secure our autonomous vehicles & technology, our customers, and our employees. We are relied upon to deliver comprehensive, accurate, and timely data for both detection and response purposes.
As a senior member of our team, you will design and develop software for producing security telemetry, data pipelines to collect data in batch and realtime, and automate at all stages of the attack killchain.
We need strong software engineering talent to help Cruise scale ridehail safely. Our team has autonomy to define what we build and how we build it. We welcome and thrive on outside-the-box thinking, which we need in order to make the cyber security problem tractable.
What you'll be doing:
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Writing testable software using modern cloud architectures (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure)
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Code reviewing peer software and designs
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Designing novel systems to automate and streamline Security’s defense and privacy capabilities
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Exemplifying software engineering best practices and mentoring members of the team
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Collaborating with blue team and red team to design novel attack behavior model
What you must have:
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Extensive experience writing software using any modern language and technology stack (i.e Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, etc.)
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Extensive experience with SQL for querying complex data sets
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Familiarity with Information security principles and common attack patterns
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Passion to independently design and deliver software solutions to the security domain
Bonus points:
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Experience with static or dynamic malware analysis
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Contributions to the open source community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc)
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 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 style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.
- 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 & 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.
- We’re Independent
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