Cruise is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join us at 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.

Requirements

• Experience building a data processing system using Beam / Spark and its ecosystems from the ground up
• Experience optimizing those data processing clusters for cost efficiency and performance
• Experience building serving systems capable of delivering data at high-throughput, low-latency and high QPS in a cost-efficient and spike-resilient manner
• Experience building full ML model lifecycle solutions - from feature engineering to training, validation, deployment and monitoring
• Experience building scalable infrastructure on the cloud with Python or Java/Scala (or similar)
• 10+ years working with big data
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another relevant field; or equivalent real-world experience
• Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
• Attention to detail and a passion for seeking truth
• A track record of efficiently solving complex problems
• Startup mentality - openness to dealing with unknown unknowns and wearing many hats

Responsibilities

• Lead us in the development, optimization and productionization of the next generation data processing platform using Beam and Spark in the cloud
• Build self-serve capabilities to help customers to adopt the next generation data processing platform
• Use the latest cloud technologies to own, design, implement, and test scalable distributed data systems in the cloud. Champion engineering excellence by continuously improving systems and processes
• Own technical projects from start to finish, contribute to the team’s product roadmap, and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs
• Effectively participate in team’s planning, code reviews and design discussions
• Consider the effects of projects across multiple teams and proactively manage conflicts. Work together with partner teams and orgs to achieve cross-organizational goals and satisfy broad requirements
• Conduct technical interviews with well-calibrated standards and play an essential role in recruiting activities
• Effectively onboard and mentor junior engineers and/or interns

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable expertise in a building end-to-end data ingestion, processing and serving systems at petabyte scale from the ground up
• Proficiency in writing SQL queries for analytic purposes
• Relevant publications

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