Principal DevEx Engineer: AI-Driven Productivity Leader

General Motors; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

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Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Experience (DevEx) team. You will lead the strategy for developer productivity, defining golden paths, and driving AI-enabled tooling across GM’s engineering ecosystem.

You’ll partner with platform, product, and security teams to reduce friction and translate insights into actionable improvements while mentoring engineers and shaping the organization’s approach to AI-driven development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development, including senior/staff/principal roles.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern language and in distributed systems.
• Deep experience designing and operating modern CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling (GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD, Jira/ADO, artifacts, secrets management, feature flags).

Responsibilities

• Set and lead technical strategy and delivery for platforms, tools, and workflows that improve developer productivity and satisfaction across GM.
• Define and drive adoption of golden paths for shipping software — CI/CD, testing, security, observability, deployment.
• Build automation and self-service capabilities to reduce manual toil and streamline provisioning and guardrails.
• Lead the strategy for embedding AI into engineering workflows including agents and copilots.
• Partner with product, security, infra, and application leaders to translate pain points into tooling improvements.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in software engineering and AI-assisted development.
• Define and own the strategy for outcome-focused metrics and use data to guide investments.
• Shape and govern engineering standards and reference architectures across Core IT and beyond.

Skills

Java

Go

C#

Python

TypeScript

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

CI/CD systems

Jira/ADO

Artifact repositories

Secrets management

Feature flags

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Experience (DevEx) team. You will lead the strategy for developer productivity, defining golden paths, and driving AI-enabled tooling across GM’s engineering ecosystem.

You’ll partner with platform, product, and security teams to reduce friction and translate insights into actionable improvements while mentoring engineers and shaping the organization’s approach to AI-driven development.