Remote Staff Engineer, Performance and Capacity

Description:

• As a Staff Engineer for the Capacity and Performance Engineering (CPE) Team at Cruise, you will focus on enhancing the scalability and efficiency of Cruise’s infrastructure.
• You will collaborate with various teams daily to drive efficiency initiatives and develop automation tools.
• Responsibilities include working with engineering to build scalable platforms, optimize existing platforms, and develop cost showback and self-service analysis structures.
• You will lead the CPE team in cloud efficiency discovery and execution, as well as work on strategic projects shaping Cruise's future.
• The role requires familiarity with high-performance compute clusters, scheduler logic, and resource contention tradeoff experience.
• You will conduct capacity and performance experiments, identify infrastructure and workflow efficiency gaps, and work on automation for capacity planning.
• The position involves coordinating changes to cross-system architectures, presenting efficiency opportunities to the executive team, and negotiating with cloud service providers for necessary capabilities.
• Automation development, deep understanding of efficiency targets, and logic gate tradeoffs are key aspects of the role.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with HPC clusters, Compute Platforms.
• 8+ years of experience in a capacity or performance engineering role.
• 5+ years of experience managing teams.
• Expertise in application performance, public cloud providers, data modeling, budgeting, and capacity planning.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, scripting, and building automation tools.
• Self-disciplined and able to thrive in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Subsidized mental health benefits.
• Paid time off, holidays, 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, a location-flexible work policy.
• Opportunity to work with General Motors and Honda for integrated manufacturing.
• Backing from investors like GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart.
• Inclusive workplace promoting diversity and equity.