Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity

Job Description

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of (Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Mountain View or Sunnyvale), you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

About Us

The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.

The Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we expect someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• 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 from distributed cloud systems and on‑vehicle sensors.
• Influence the team’s technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision.
• Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization, and create tooling which encourages these.
• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)

• 7+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front‑line engineers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience driving consensus on a multi‑functional effort using influence without authority.
• Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems.
• Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems such as 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++, NodeJS or equivalent.
• Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals.
• Effective collaboration skills and experience researching, documenting, communicating, and defending proposals and taking and giving critical feedback.
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs and observability pipelines (e.g., either for logging or metrics or tracing).
• Skilled in defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs.
• Own or contribute to Open Source projects.
• Passion for self‑driving technology and its potential impact on the world.

Compensation

• Salary range: $280,000 to $385,000.
• Bonus potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs including medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts, and more.
• Company Vehicle: Eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, with requirement to purchase or lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless specified exceptions apply.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

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