Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

About the role

The AV Developer Productivity 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 autonomous vehicle program forward. Tools and services we work on enhance the entire development process of engineers at GM — how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world-class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.

Responsibilities

• Team leadership: Manage and grow a team of engineers, conducting performance reviews, providing coaching, and supporting career development.
• Tech strategy: Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the observability platform, ensuring it provides actionable insights into complex systems.
• Architectural oversight: Provide technical guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing to ensure comprehensive visibility across GM’s AV software stack.
• Incident response: Ensure the team's tools enable rapid detection, debugging, and resolution of unknown or unforeseen system failures to minimize downtime.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with other engineering teams—such as those developing AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure—to implement observability practices and improve system reliability.
• Platform development: Lead the development of internal tools and data pipelines to collect, analyze, and visualize telemetry data at a massive scale.
• Vendor management: Manage relationships and costs associated with third-party observability software and platforms.

Requirements

Management experience: 7+ years of proven leadership experience managing software or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams.

Developer Tools expertise: Deep understanding of software engineering and/or machine learning engineering workflows and a track record of delivering solutions that improved them.

Software architecture: Strong background in designing, developing, and architecting distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices.

Programming proficiency: Familiarity with Go, Python, Typescript or similar along with software development practices to inform code reviews and architectural decisions.

Cloud infrastructure: Experience with modern cloud offerings like GCP, AWS, or Azure and technologies like CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform.
• 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.

Skills

• Management experience
• Developer Tools expertise
• Software architecture
• Programming proficiency
• Cloud infrastructure
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform
• 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

Benefits

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington. The salary range for this role: is $218,800- $335,300. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

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. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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

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