Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

General Motors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 219,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Company vehicle program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AV Developer Productivity team to lead a high-impact group of engineers delivering and evolving developer tools used by GM's AV program.

The role focuses on guiding the observability platform, scaling data pipelines, and partnering with AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven leadership experience managing software or SRE teams.
• Deep understanding of software engineering workflows and ML engineering workflows.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud-native apps, and microservices.
• Familiarity with Go, Python, TypeScript or similar languages.
• Experience with modern cloud offerings (GCP, AWS, Azure) and CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of GCP, Go, Python, TypeScript technologies.

Responsibilities

• Team leadership: manage and grow a team of engineers with performance reviews and coaching.
• Define and execute the observability platform roadmap and technical vision.
• Provide architectural guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Oversee incident response to minimize downtime and resolve issues quickly.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, firmware, and infra teams to improve reliability.
• Lead internal tool and data pipeline development for telemetry at scale.
• Manage relationships and costs with third-party observability vendors.

Skills

Management experience

Developer Tools expertise

Software architecture

Programming proficiency

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

GCP

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

About Us

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 enhancing 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.

Job Description

About Us

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 enhancing 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.

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager 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 are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and is able to effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. This person will start delivering impact through foundational tools used by 1,500 engineers and will evolve the offerings depending on business needs. They will be expected to identify high ROI investments with minimal guidance.

The Team

As a part of AV Developer Productivity, the AV Developer Experience team is responsible for creating and maintaining a robust, reliable, and cohesive inner loop development experience for AV developers at GM to optimize the rate at which quality code is produced at Cruise. We achieve through a combination of internally developed tools, vendor tools, and vendor tool integrations.

What You’ll Do

• Team leadership: Manage and grow a team of engineers, conducting performance reviews, providing coaching, and supporting career development.


• Technical 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.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 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


• Communication skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders


• Relevant Technologies: GCP, Go, Python, Typescript

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• 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

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.

Company Vehicle

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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.

Benefits Overview

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

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Applicants Process

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