Principal Software Engineer - Remote CI/CD for Embedded

General Motors; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. You will lead a major capability across teams, influencing technical direction beyond your unit and connecting software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a cohesive system.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication, and the ability to turn cross-team

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading software engineering teams.
• Experience shaping and scaling enterprise-grade platforms for embedded software.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
• Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across domains.
• Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery with automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform and multi-environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

CI/CD architecture

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Security & compliance

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and scale the engineering platforms that build, test, integrate, validate, and deliver embedded software for software-defined vehicles. You will lead a major capability across teams, influencing technical direction beyond your unit and connecting software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a cohesive system.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication, and the ability to turn cross-team