Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure, Observability

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The Observability team at Cruise is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to play a critical role in building out and improving observability systems, tools and the related codebase.

Site Reliability Engineers at Cruise bring specialized knowledge and experience to ensure the reliability, scalability, performance, efficiency, and security of our systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems.
• Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability.
• Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively.
• Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals.

What you must have:

• Previous experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Software Engineer with a focus on distributed systems reliability.
• Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes).
• Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, or NodeJS.
• Experience in implementing a new technology or service by leading or driving a multi-functional effort.
• Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems.
• Considerable …