Cloud Platform Engineering Manager (Azure & GCP)

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle program

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

General Motors in Mountain View, CA seeks a Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform – Nova to lead engineers on the Atmos team building GM’s next generation cloud platform. Nova powers customer‑ and vehicle‑centric systems across GM, including OnStar, GM Energy, and Commercial and Fleet partnerships.

This role focuses on event messaging, data, and storage services across Azure and GCP, driving reliability, scalability, and developer experience, while mentoring engineers and shaping reusable

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of engineering teams in cloud platform or infrastructure
• Strong foundation in cloud-native systems and production operations
• Experience shipping shared services and platform capabilities

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for cloud platform capabilities in event messaging, data, and storage
• Drive delivery and day-to-day operational excellence for shared services used across Nova
• Own backlog management, program management, planning, and team ceremonies to improve execution and clarity across the team
• Help define and execute the roadmap for platform capabilities that improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience
• Improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, release safety, and other operational practices needed to run highly reliable services
• Establish clear expectations for engineering quality, service ownership, incident response, on-call participation, and operational maturity
• Partner with engineering, platform, security, and product stakeholders to align priorities and deliver platform capabilities that meet customer needs
• Build a strong team culture grounded in accountability, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and operational ownership
• Coach engineers and emerging leaders through regular feedback, career development, and high standards for execution
• Ensure the team is building reusable, well-operated services that reduce complexity for platform consumers across Azure and GCP

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platform

Backlog management

Program management

Observability

Multi-cloud

Azure

GCP

Communication

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Postgres

Cassandra

Job description

General Motors in Mountain View, CA seeks a Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform – Nova to lead engineers on the Atmos team building GM’s next generation cloud platform. Nova powers customer‑ and vehicle‑centric systems across GM, including OnStar, GM Energy, and Commercial and Fleet partnerships.

This role focuses on event messaging, data, and storage services across Azure and GCP, driving reliability, scalability, and developer experience, while mentoring engineers and shaping reusable