Engineering Manager — Developer Productivity & Observability

General Motors Company; Jackson (TN); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Hybrid work model

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking an Engineering Manager for AV Developer Productivity. You will lead a team delivering foundational tools used by GM engineers and shape the observability platform roadmap to improve system reliability.

You will collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams, driving instrumentation, logging, and data pipelines at scale while balancing business needs with engineer growth. Hybrid role with on-site expectation.

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 and cloud-native apps.
• Familiarity with Go, Python, Typescript and modern dev practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker and cloud providers GCP/AWS/Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers, conduct performance reviews and coach career development.
• Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the observability platform.
• Provide guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Ensure rapid incident detection, debugging, and resolution to minimize downtime.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, firmware and infra teams to improve reliability.
• Oversee internal tools and data pipelines for telemetry at scale.
• Manage relationships and costs with third-party observability vendors.

Skills

Leadership experience

Developer tools

Software architecture

Go

Python

Typescript

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

GCP

AWS

Azure

Communication

GCP, Go, Python, Typescript

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Terraform

Job description

General Motors Company is seeking an Engineering Manager for AV Developer Productivity. You will lead a team delivering foundational tools used by GM engineers and shape the observability platform roadmap to improve system reliability.

You will collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams, driving instrumentation, logging, and data pipelines at scale while balancing business needs with engineer growth. Hybrid role with on-site expectation.