Cruise is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Observability team at Cruise as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to play a critical role in building out and improving observability systems, tools, and the related codebase. As a key member of the team, you will contribute code, perform code reviews, create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems, and partner with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide engineers to use existing tools effectively.

Requirements

• Previous experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Software Engineer with a focus on distributed systems reliability
• Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes)
• Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or NodeJS
• Experience in implementing a new technology or service by leading or driving a multi-functional effort
• Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems
• Considerable Linux experience
• Effective collaboration skills to work closely with the team members and various engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems
• Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability
• Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively
• Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 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