134 applicants

Company

Cruise · 5 hours ago

Staff Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$175K/yr - $258K/yr

8+ years exp

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Comp. & Benefits

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

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HPC clustersCapacity engineeringPerformance engineeringPublic cloud providersData modelingBudgeting experienceCapacity planningSQLPythonScriptingBuilding automation toolsSelf-discipline

Required

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

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.

Company

Cruise

Glassdoor

3.2

Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles.

Founded in 2013

San Francisco, California

1,001-5,000 employees

http://getcruise.com/

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