Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization

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

Remote/Hybrid

Milford, Michigan, United States of America

Remote - United States

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Mountain View, California, United States of America

Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Full time

JR-202621008

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

This role is based remotely, but if the candidate lives within a 50 miles radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week (or other frequency dictated by your manager).

The Role:

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. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can turn ambiguous, cross-team problems into durable architecture, practical standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

The successful candidate will lead a major capability across multiple teams, influence technical direction beyond their immediate organization, and connect software, tooling, infrastructure, test, and release activities into a coherent engineering system.

What You'll Do:

• Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change.
• Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts.
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.
• Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively.
• Ability to connect multiple initiatives together to deliver higher value.
• Visualize required innovation, learning and simplification in this space and transition theteam to execute what is required to achieve.
• Maintain command skills and empathy at the same time
• Architect enterprise‑scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality‑gate standards across multiple engineering domains.
• Design GitOps‑based delivery for multi‑cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi‑environment patterns.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows.