Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering

Cruise is a self-driving service company building advanced autonomous vehicles to safely connect people to places, things, and experiences they care about.
$175,100 - $257,500
Cloud
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
8+ years of experience
AI · Automotive

Description For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering

Cruise is revolutionizing urban transportation with advanced self-driving technology. As a Staff Engineer for the Capacity and Performance Engineering (CPE) Team, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the scalability and efficiency of Cruise's infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include collaborating across teams like AI, Product, and Infrastructure to develop cost showback structures, lead cloud efficiency initiatives, and work on strategic projects shaping Cruise's future. You'll conduct capacity and performance experiments, identify infrastructure efficiency gaps, and partner with engineering teams to optimize resource consumption. Your expertise in high-performance compute clusters, scheduler logic, and resource contention will be vital. This role requires a deep understanding of efficiency targets and data-backed improvements. You'll also present efficiency opportunities to the executive team and lead automation efforts for capacity planning. Join Cruise to make a positive impact on the world through revolutionary self-driving technology while working in an inclusive environment that values diverse experiences and contributions.

Last updated 23 days ago

Responsibilities For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering

  • 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

Requirements For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering

Python
  • Familiarity with HPC clusters, Compute Platforms
  • 8+ years experience in capacity or performance engineering role
  • 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

Benefits For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Mental Health Assistance
401k
Parental Leave
  • 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

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