• 12+ years as a lead developer or architect
• Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full stack web services in a production environment
• The ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions
• Serving as a role model and mentor for others on acting with good judgment and responsibility
• Broad knowledge of cloud computing platforms like GCP, Azure and AWS, API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA and/or microservice-based architectures, datastores types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development tech such as React
• Excellent written communication skills. Your ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs will be shared with other senior engineers, partners, and the company's leadership
• Strong product sense. You are aware of the value proposition of the products you are building.You must also have an execution-mindset, looking to deliver the most minimalist MVP, which can deliver the highest value for the company (ala lean product)
• A passion for self-driving technology and its impact on the world

Desirable

• Be a solver or an architect in one or more of our groups
• Lead technology and architecture decisions, including originating and assessing technical designs, and communicating design with engineers, partners and executives
• Uphold a high technical bar, and drive high quality engineering practices across our department and Cruise
• Having vision and identifying strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence by improving standard methodologies, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
• Work collaboratively to establish and execute on large, multi-team programs
• Work with engineer managers and engineers, mentoring, coaching and growing them to help you accomplish the team’s goals
• Work with our product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers