Principal DevEx Engineer: AI-Driven Productivity Leader

General Motors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Developer Experience to lead AI-enhanced engineering workflows. You will shape metrics, advocate for golden paths, and mentor engineers while driving platform improvements across GM’s DevEx ecosystem.

You’ll partner with security, infra, and product teams to remove friction, implement self-service tooling, and embed AI into developer workflows, ensuring scalable, reliable software delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development, including significant time in senior/staff/principal-level roles.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript) and in designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
• Deep experience designing and operating modern CI/CD pipelines and release processes, including build, test, deploy, release strategies, rollback, and environment promotion.
• Hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling (e.g., GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD systems, Jira/ADO, artifact repositories, secrets management, feature flags).

Responsibilities

• Set and lead technical strategy and delivery for platforms, tools, and workflows that improve developer productivity, quality, and satisfaction across GM.
• Define and drive adoption of golden paths (opinionated, paved-road workflows) for shipping software—covering repo structure, CI/CD, testing, security, observability, and deployment.
• Build automation and self-service capabilities that reduce manual toil (e.g., environment provisioning, pipeline setup, guardrail enforcement, standards checks).
• Lead the strategy for embedding AI into engineering workflows, including agents and copilots that assist with planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operations.
• Partner with and influence product, security, infra, and application leaders to understand pain points and translate them into concrete platform and tooling improvements.
• Act as an org-wide multiplier and mentor, coaching engineers and providing guidance on software engineering, AI-assisted development, and recommended practices.
• Define, socialize, and own the strategy for outcome-focused metrics (e.g., lead time for changes, PR cycle time, change failure rate, developer satisfaction) and use data to guide investments.
• Shape and govern engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures used across Core IT and beyond.

Skills

Java

Go

C#

Python

TypeScript

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jira/ADO

CI/CD pipelines

artifact repositories

secrets management

feature flags

Job description

General Motors seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Developer Experience to lead AI-enhanced engineering workflows. You will shape metrics, advocate for golden paths, and mentor engineers while driving platform improvements across GM’s DevEx ecosystem.

You’ll partner with security, infra, and product teams to remove friction, implement self-service tooling, and embed AI into developer workflows, ensuring scalable, reliable software delivery.