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.

The CI Platform team owns the platform that builds and tests source code at Cruise along with storing the execution artifacts. We work to efficiently and reliably support Cruise’s continuous integration needs at scale. This team is responsible for Cruise’s Content Addressable Storage, managing the CI Infrastructure, and remote build & test execution.  

In this role, we are seeking an engineer who is excited about working cross functionally to understand customer problems and build solutions that will help improve our engineering velocity. This includes work like building a service for Build Analytics, discovering opportunities to improve our ephemeral worker efficiency, increase reliability during CI critical path, and more. 

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.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and implement improvements to our AV development toolchains, build system, CI/CD pipelines and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity.

• Drive Service Level Objective (SLO) conversations with customers and track the metrics customers care about

• Evaluate new tools and technologies through PoCs and propose solutions for implementation

• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics

• Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the company, and create tooling which encourages these

What you must have:

• 3+ years experience designing, building and operating production systems at scale

• Experience with light full stack API development

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (for instance Go, Python, Java, or other relevant coding languages)

• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & systems around you

• Ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals and take critical feedback

• Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work well under pressure

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

Bonus Points!

• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services

• Experience writing Go, C, C++, or a desire to learn

• Experience working on developer tooling, build systems or CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Mesos, etc.

• Thorough understanding of Unix/Linux and networking fundamentals

• Experience with observability tools for Logging, Metrics, and Tracing

• Experience owning or contributing to Open Source projects

• Experience working with modern build systems such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, or equivalent

• Experience working with CI/CD tooling such as Buildkite, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.  

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

The salary range for this position is $178,500 - $210,000. 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