Staff Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

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. As a Staff Engineer for the Capacity and Performance Engineering (CPE) Team, you will be working on efforts to improve the scalability and efficiency of Cruise’s infrastructure.

Requirements

• Familiarity with HPC clusters, Compute Platforms
• 8+ years experience in capacity or performance engineering role
• 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