Staff Engineer, Performance and Capacity

We're 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. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

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. You will need to work cross-functionally with engineering and various teams every day to drive efficiency initiatives and develop tooling to automate this. You will be responsible for collaborating with engineering for building scalable and efficient platforms, and optimizing our existing platforms.

What you'll be doing:

• 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.

What you must have:

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

The salary range for this position is $166,600 - $245,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives.