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 figure out 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.
Mission: To improve the developer productivity of engineers at Cruise through tools and services that streamline/automate their development workflows.
Role: We are looking for a Staff Engineer with an extensive engineering background, with experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and is able to effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.The way this engineer will deliver impact may vary depending on the situation but they will be expected to be able to identify how they can best have impact with minimal guidance.
What you’ll be doing:
- Identify engineering pain points and propose/design/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
- Influencing the team’s technical roadmap
- Evaluate new tools and technologies through PoCs
- 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
- Helping steer the engineering culture on the team
- Influence the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team
- Set the example for high levels of accountability
- Executing and delivering impact both individually and through the team
Relevant Technologies:
GoLang
gRPC
SSH
Kubernetes
Docker
Linux
Buildkite
GCP
OpenTelemetry
GoLang
gRPC
SSH
Kubernetes
Docker
Linux
Buildkite
GCP
OpenTelemetry
What you must have:
- 7+ years experience designing, building and operating production 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 mentoring and growing junior developers
- Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
Bonus Points!
- Experience working with GCP
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience owning or contributing to Open Source projects
The salary range for this position is $166,600 - $245,000. 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.
