Staff Engineer, Embedded CI/CD & Cloud Platform

General Motors; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 186,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Canada is seeking a Staff Engineer of Software Engineering, Embedded Platform, as a Continuous Integration Developer (Architect Level). You will define the architecture, standards, and strategy for how GM builds, tests, and deploys virtualized vehicle software.

You will lead ahead in CI/CD, embedded systems, automation, and expand into cloud orchestration, IaC, progressive delivery, and data‑driven simulation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of software development experience.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness
• Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change
• Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor
• Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively
• Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value
• Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition the team to execute what is required to achieve
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time
• Architect enterprise‑scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality‑gate standards across multiple engineering domains.
• Design GitOps‑based delivery for multi‑cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi‑environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.
• Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems.
• Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Multi-tasking

Communication

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

General Motors in Canada is seeking a Staff Engineer of Software Engineering, Embedded Platform, as a Continuous Integration Developer (Architect Level). You will define the architecture, standards, and strategy for how GM builds, tests, and deploys virtualized vehicle software.

You will lead ahead in CI/CD, embedded systems, automation, and expand into cloud orchestration, IaC, progressive delivery, and data‑driven simulation.