Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

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.

Team background: Our team owns the code authoring experience at Cruise from how users check out/edit code to how they push/review code. This consists of a combination of self-hosted vendor tools (Sourecgraph, Github, etc), as well as various in-house built tools that streamline access to and development on secure ephemeral cloud environments. Our tools ensure that users always have access to the code, hardware, and secure environments they need to do their work. This enables engineers to spend more of their time on their domains of expertise and less time trying to determine how to get access to the hardware/code they need, debugging “why does this work on my computer but not on yours”, or constantly worrying about the patching/security of the environment they are doing development in.

Team Charter: To improve the developer productivity of engineers at Cruise through tools and services that provide a cohesive development experience and streamline/automate their development workflows.

Role: We are looking for a Senior Engineer with experience working on distributed systems, backend services, and infrastructure. Culturally, this engineer needs to be passionate about developer productivity, care deeply about both their own personal growth as well as the growth of those on their team. We are looking for an engineer who is able to effectively listen to and understand problems and propose/deliver complete solutions to user problems from ideation to production that are reliable, scalable, and easily maintainable.

 

• Propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable to problems that align with the team and organizational OKRs
• Influencing the team’s technical roadmap
• Ship improvements to our AV development toolchains and services which have a measurable and direct impact on engineering productivity and our core company metrics
• Proposing and upholding software engineering best practices within your team
• Finding the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
• Maintaining high levels of accountability
• Executing and delivering impact both individually and on a team
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, escalating risks with leadership, and collaborating effectively with other engineers on the team to deliver on solutions.

• Relevant Technologies:
  • GoLang
  • SSH
  • Linux
  • GCP
  • gRPC
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Buildkite
  • GCP
  • OpenTelemetry
    
     

What you must have:

• 3+ years experience designing, building and operating production distributed systems at scale in the cloud.
• Experience designing highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable services.
• Experience writing Go, or a desire to learn
• Understanding of Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals
• Attention to detail, and a desire to improve processes & systems around you
• Ability to lead and influence others, both internal and external to the team
• Ability to research, document, communicate, and defend proposals and take critical feedback
• Ability to effectively make trade-offs and communicate the reasoning
• Ability to manage competing priorities, focus on shipping, and work effectively under pressure
• Passion for efficiency and improving developer productivity..

The salary range for this position is $100,600 - $148,000. 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.