Remote Staff Engineer, Performance and Capacity

Summary

Join Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love, as a Staff Engineer for the Capacity and Performance Engineering (CPE) Team. You will work on efforts to improve scalability and efficiency of Cruise's infrastructure, collaborating with engineering teams to develop tooling and optimize platforms.

Requirements

• Familiarity with HPC clusters, Compute Platforms
• 8+ years experience in capacity or performance engineering role
• 5+ years experience managing teams
• Expert application performance experience
• Expert knowledge of various public cloud providers
• Expert with data modeling for public cloud
• Expert with budgeting and capacity planning experience
• Expert in SQL, Python, scripting, and building automation tools
• Self-disciplined and thrives in fast moving environment
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Provide deepest visibility to what is going on for all products: Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers
• Proactively identify gaps in infrastructure efficiency and workflow efficiencies, with being a key contributor in driving proposals to results
• Partner with engineering teams, Compute/Simulation platform in particular, to conduct capacity and performance experiments to resolve potential performance bottlenecks
• Work closely with software engineers to reduce their consumption of cloud resources and improve their performance
• Work with cloud service providers to proactively negotiate and retain necessary SKUs and capabilities required for efficient scale and capacity readiness
• Work frequently with other teams to coordinate major changes to cross-system architectures, influencing upstream or downstream for the most efficient solution
• Present efficiency opportunities and project cost savings to Cruise executive team
• Design, develop and lead automation to help capacity plan for both near and long term

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
• 401(k) Cruise matching program
• Fertility benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
• Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
• Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
• CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy