Staff Engineer, Performance and Capacity

As a Staff Engineer for the Capacity and Performance Engineering (CPE) Team at Cruise, you will work on improving the scalability and efficiency of Cruise's infrastructure. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and various teams to drive efficiency initiatives and develop automation tooling. Your responsibilities include working with AI, Product, and Infrastructure teams to develop cost showback structures, leading cloud efficiency discovery and execution, and shaping Cruise's future through strategic projects.

The ideal candidate should have familiarity with high-performance compute clusters, scheduler logic, and resource contention tradeoff experience. You should be able to make logic gate tradeoffs to represent efficiency targets and be comfortable investing in deep understanding to find novel, data-backed improvements.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide deep visibility into product performance through capacity and performance experiments
• Identify and address infrastructure and workflow efficiency gaps
• Partner with engineering teams to resolve performance bottlenecks
• Work with software engineers to optimize cloud resource consumption
• Negotiate with cloud service providers for efficient scaling and capacity readiness
• Coordinate major cross-system architecture changes
• Present efficiency opportunities and project cost savings to executives
• Design and lead automation efforts for short and long-term capacity planning

This role offers a competitive salary range of $175,100 - $257,500, along with bonus potential, long-term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. Cruise provides a flexible work policy called CruiseFlex, allowing for location-flexible work arrangements.

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. They encourage applications from all backgrounds and are dedicated to creating a culture where every employee can do their best work.