Engineering Manager, Developer Experience & Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AV Developer Productivity organization. You will lead a team of engineers, define the observability strategy, and guide the architecture of distributed, cloud-native systems used by GM’s AV software stack.

You will collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infra groups to enhance system reliability and toolchains. You will drive platform development, instrument critical pipelines, and manage vendor relationships to deliver high ROI

Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven leadership experience managing software or SRE teams
• Deep understanding of software engineering and/or machine learning engineering workflows and a track record of delivering solutions that improved them
• Strong background in designing, developing, and architecting distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices
• Familiarity with Go, Python, Typescript or similar along with software development practices to inform code reviews and architectural decisions
• Experience with modern cloud offerings like GCP, AWS, or Azure and technologies like CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders
• GCP, Go, Python, Typescript

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Management experience

Developer Tools

Software architecture

Programming languages

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

GCP, Go, Python, Typescript

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Terraform

Job description

General Motors is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AV Developer Productivity organization. You will lead a team of engineers, define the observability strategy, and guide the architecture of distributed, cloud-native systems used by GM’s AV software stack.

You will collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infra groups to enhance system reliability and toolchains. You will drive platform development, instrument critical pipelines, and manage vendor relationships to deliver high ROI