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The Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CIRT) builds detections as code, investigates cybersecurity events, leads internal security incidents and digital forensic investigations, and builds custom software solutions aimed to increase the efficiency of response.

As the team’s Staff Technical Lead Manager, you will set and drive the technical direction of the team. You will grow and manage a small team of security engineers while independently designing and implementing solutions related to complex problems spanning threat detection, cybersecurity incident response, digital forensics and automation.

This role emphasizes technical knowledge and capability over previous management experience. If you are currently a Staff engineer with deep expertise in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), have been successful in mentoring junior engineers and are interested in moving into management, this may be the perfect opportunity for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers with significant scope in the Detection & Response organization
• Solve highly complex problems through the design and implementation of innovative solutions
• Ensure engineering standard methodologies are adopted and followed, and the quality of the product offerings are at a high bar
• Provide strong technical leadership in high-visibility security incidents and internal investigations
• Document and present technical findings to senior leadership, up to the C-suite
• Drive long-term planning and establish scalable processes for execution
• Work with teams across Cruise to foster a collaborative culture
• Embody Cruise behaviors and values: Stay Safe, Own It, Stay Focused, Seek Truth, Work Together, Be a Customer, Be Humble

What you must have:

• Experience as an incident commander handling large-scale, persistent, sophisticated attacks in complex heterogeneous corporate environments
• Significant experience spanning all stages of the incident response process
• Major proficiency in digital forensics for one operating system (Windows, macOS or Linux), and moderate proficiency in one other
• Proficiency in volatile memory acquisition and analysis
• Experience writing code in a production environment
• Demonstrated history of mentoring junior engineers in DFIR
• Track record of shipping well-polished reports to an executive audience; exemplary communications skills when interfacing with leadership-level stakeholders
• Experience with deployment, operations, and maintenance of open-source and commercial digital forensic tools

Bonus points!

• Experience managing teams and initiatives in a fast-paced engineering organization
• Industry-leading SANS certifications, including GCFA, GCFE, and GNFA
• Experience in malware reverse engineering and analysis

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
  • Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
  • One Medical membership
  • Subsidized mental health benefits
  • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
  • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
  • Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care and medical leave
  • Fertility Benefits
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
  • Flexible Spending Account 
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
  • CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.

• We’re Integrated
  • Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
  • GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We’re Independent
  • We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested
  • You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
  • Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO) - a unique equity program where employees, both current and former, have the option to sell any amount of their vested equity on a recurring basis, currently quarterly.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. 

We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email HR@getcruise.com.

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.

Vaccine Mandate. 

At Cruise, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #StaySafe culture transcends and informs all we do, and because of this, as of October 31, 2021 Cruise will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all US-based Cruisers who need or want to access any of our US Cruise facilities and engage in any business travel — including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event. 

If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or a strongly-held religious belief, Cruise will consider requests for an accommodation.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.