AV Data Platform Engineering Manager

General Motors Company; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Company seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the AV Data Processing and Services team. You will guide distributed systems, data infrastructure, and platform software engineers building core pipelines and storage backbones for petabyte-scale telemetry.

You will balance cloud infrastructure with AI/ML workflows, driving high performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP services and data services.

Qualifications

• BA or BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another relevant field
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, big data platforms, or cloud infrastructure, with 2+ years in formal engineering leadership
• Experience designing, operating, and scaling petabyte-scale distributed data pipelines and storage systems (e.g., Apache Spark, Beam, Ray, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and/or Presto/Trino)
• Expert-level proficiency in C++, Python, Rust or Go, with a proven track record of distributed systems design and implementation
• Experience deploying and managing services in major cloud providers (Azure, AWS or GCP) with automation and observability
• Proven ability translating complex cross-functional requirements into dependable technical roadmaps and deliverables

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering Delivery: contribute to technical design, implementation, and delivery while mentoring the team
• People & Team Leadership: recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing software and data engineering team
• Technical Strategy & Roadmap: own the vision and roadmap for AV Data services, including batch and streaming tools
• Efficiency & Infrastructure Economics: optimize cloud compute and storage to balance performance and cost
• Reliability & Observability: establish SLAs, monitoring, data lineage, testing, and incident management

Skills

Distributed systems

Big data platforms

Cloud infrastructure

People leadership

C++, Python, Rust, Go

Automation & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Math/Physics

Tools

Apache Spark

Beam

Ray

Flink

Kafka

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Presto/Trino

Job description

General Motors Company seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the AV Data Processing and Services team. You will guide distributed systems, data infrastructure, and platform software engineers building core pipelines and storage backbones for petabyte-scale telemetry.

You will balance cloud infrastructure with AI/ML workflows, driving high performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP services and data services.