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.
In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.
Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.
- Develop and implement comprehensive services and distributed systems, including our expanding suite of operational tools, to enhance our ability to deploy, monitor, and control our fleet of autonomous vehicles. These solutions are critical for increasing the speed and confidence of our deployments, and they carry significant business impact..
- 90% Backend development, 10% or less Frontend development.
- Work collaboratively to establish and execute large, multi-team programs. Our team is growing, has a significant impact across the organization/company, and undertakes cross-team and collaborative projects.
- Raise the bar by producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
- Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements.
- Collaborate with product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers.
- 5+ years of production-level experience building full-stack applications with a significant focus on backend development.
- Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full-stack web services in a production environment.
- Ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns, and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions.
- Serve as a role model and mentor, demonstrating good judgment and responsibility.
- Expertise in cloud computing platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS), API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA/microservice-based architectures, datastore types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development technologies.
- Excellent written communication skills to share ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs with senior engineers, partners, and leadership.
- Awareness of the value proposition of the products you are building, with an execution mindset focused on delivering high-value minimalist MVPs (lean product approach).
- A genuine interest in self-driving technology and its impact on the world.
- Experience building large-scale developer productivity tools and workflows.
- Proficiency in Golang and TypeScript.
- Prior experience in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.
- Experience or interest in machine learning (ML), embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics.
- We're pioneering new safety measures, pushing testing further away from the vehicle and earlier into the development process. Our tools, particularly AV bots, allow synthetic testing without a physical vehicle, unlocking extensive end-to-end testing capabilities.
- Cruise is selectively hiring for critical roles, and this team will play a major role in the future of the company.
- Work with cutting-edge technologies including Golang, TypeScript, Temporal, Redis, and GCP Spanner.
- Engage with diverse teams across the Product Engineering organization.
- Be part of a team that owns fascinating distributed systems and innovative projects.
- Join a fairly new team, just over two years old, avoiding legacy code while not starting entirely from scratch.
Join us at Cruise and be part of a team that is at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology, making a significant impact on the future of transportation. Your expertise and passion will drive the next generation of innovations in our operational tools. Apply now to be part of this exciting journey!
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 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. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
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What We Do
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.
Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings.
Together, we believe our world-class partners, deep resources, and technology approach of testing in a complex urban environment will help to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale.
Why Work With Us
Your work on all-electric, self-driving vehicles will save lives, help the planet, and make cities better. It’s something to be proud of...and it’s career-defining work.
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