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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.

Cruise’s Threat Defense team defends against external adversaries and internal threats. Our goal is to protect Cruise: our autonomous vehicles & technology, our customers, and our employees. 

Security Data facilitates threat detection and response capabilities via the procurement of security-relevant data, as well as the creation and maintenance of threat detections. We aim to provide the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CIRT), Privacy Engineering and other Security customers with Cruise information system data in a manner that is comprehensive, uniform, centralized, and speedy. Moreover, the team strives to provide behavioral detections to improve Cruise’s security posture against external adversaries and internal threats. Security Data maintains an internally-built logging and detection pipeline, and builds innovative data solutions that enable efficient log parsing, detection and analysis.

As part of our small team of engineers, you will be responsible for writing and integrating software that spans the detection and response lifecycle. We have autonomy to define what we build and how we build it.

As Cruise approaches commercialization, we need strong software engineering talent to help detect sophisticated cybersecurity attacks by adversaries. 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:

• Writing testable software using modern cloud architectures & code reviewing peer software

• Designing novel systems to automate and streamline our detection and response capabilities

• Collaborating with teams across the organization to threat model systems and develop new security detections

What you must have:

• Extensive experience writing software using any modern language (e.g. python, go, java)

• Experience deploying software using any modern CI/CD pipeline

• Experience operating in Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Knowledge of core network and application protocols

• Moderate level of experience in information security

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with SQL for querying complex data sets

• Experience deploying and operating software in kubernetes

• Experience participating in threat hunts

• Familiarity with static and dynamic malware analysis

• Contributions to the open source community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc)

• Experience mentoring less senior members of an engineering team

The salary range for this position is $176,800 - 260,000. 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:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• One Medical membership
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
• CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, p