Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering
Description For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering
Cruise is at the forefront of self-driving technology, creating autonomous vehicles designed to revolutionize urban transportation. 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. This position requires cross-functional collaboration with various teams, including AI, Product, and Infrastructure, to drive efficiency initiatives and develop automation tools.
Your responsibilities will include conducting capacity and performance experiments, identifying infrastructure efficiency gaps, partnering with engineering teams to resolve performance bottlenecks, and working closely with cloud service providers. You'll also be instrumental in presenting efficiency opportunities and project cost savings to the executive team.
The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in capacity or performance engineering, expert knowledge of public cloud providers, and strong skills in application performance, data modeling, and automation tool development. Familiarity with high-performance compute clusters and scheduler logic is crucial.
Cruise offers a competitive salary range of $175,100 - $257,500, along with potential bonuses, long-term incentives, and comprehensive benefits. These include medical/dental/vision insurance, mental health support, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) matching program, and various flexible spending accounts.
Join Cruise to be part of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where you can make a positive impact on the world through revolutionary self-driving technology. Even if you don't meet every requirement, Cruise encourages you to apply as you might be the right candidate for this exciting opportunity.
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
- 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
Benefits For Staff Engineer, Capacity and Performance Engineering
- 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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