Engineering Manager, Developer Experience & Tooling

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the AV Developer Productivity observability initiatives. You will guide tool strategy for the 1,500 engineers, align with AI/ML, firmware, and infra teams, and shape a roadmap that increases system visibility and reliability across GM’s autonomous vehicle software stack.

You will build and mentor a high‑performing team, own technical decisions, and drive platform development with a focus on scalability, reliability, and ROI for complex

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Team leadership: Manage and grow a team of engineers; conduct performance reviews.
• Technical strategy: Define the vision and roadmap for observability platforms.
• Architectural oversight: Guide instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Incident response: Enable rapid detection, debugging, and resolution of failures.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with AI/ML, firmware, and infra teams.
• Platform development: Lead internal tools and data pipelines for telemetry at scale.
• Vendor management: Manage third-party observability software relationships.

Skills

Management experience

Developer Tools

Software architecture

Programming proficiency

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Relevant Technologies

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Terraform

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

General Motors seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the AV Developer Productivity observability initiatives. You will guide tool strategy for the 1,500 engineers, align with AI/ML, firmware, and infra teams, and shape a roadmap that increases system visibility and reliability across GM’s autonomous vehicle software stack.

You will build and mentor a high‑performing team, own technical decisions, and drive platform development with a focus on scalability, reliability, and ROI for complex