Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Cruise
Infrastructure, Observability
$166.6-245k
Self-driving vehicles
Open for applications
Self-driving vehicles
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$166.6-245k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a better world by deploying driverless cars at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio and Terraform
- Leadership experience
- Skilled in defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs
- Previous experience working with Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs and observability pipelines (e.g. either for logging or metrics or tracing)
What the job involves
- The Observability team at Cruise is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to play a critical role in building out and improving observability systems, tools and the related codebase
- Site Reliability Engineers at Cruise bring specialized knowledge and experience to ensure the reliability, scalability, performance, efficiency, and security of our systems
- 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
Our take
The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.
Cruise brings self-driving autonomy and electric cars together into a taxi-hailing mobile application. In addition to these innovations, the service focuses on efficiency through ride-sharing as opposed to each ride providing a single trip. Whilst other taxi-hailing services will inevitably turn to electric self-driving vehicles, Cruise shows potential to stand out through its AI-fuelled focus on carpooling and fleet efficiency.
Cruise, which has been acquired by General Motors, has received an inordinate amount of funding, including from Honda and Microsoft, with Softbank investing over $2B to scale its technology. A sum of this came after Cruise launched a limited driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco. However, the company is now facing lawsuits from the city to limit its operations there after a series of accidents involving Cruise's vehicles.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2024
$850m
LATE VC
Feb 2022
$1.3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $9.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time
Company values
- Stay safe
- Stay focused
- Own it
- Seek truth
- Work together
- Be humble
- Be a customer
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Craig Glidden
(CEO (Not Founder))Is also currently the Executive Vice President of General Motors in its Legal wing.
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