Staff Cloud Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Nova

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Company vehicle program

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform to join the Atmos team and help build GM’s Nova cloud platform powering OnStar, GM Energy, and Commercial fleets. You will lead design, implement reusable platform services, and drive architectural direction at scale across Azure and GCP.

You will own operators and control-plane components, improve observability, and mentor teams while collaborating across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 8+ years experience in engineering or architecture roles.
• Strong software engineering experience building and operating production systems in cloud or platform environments.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills and a history of building complicated or complex systems.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform architecture.
• Experience running platforms on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience building operators, controllers, or similar control-plane abstractions.
• Demonstrated ability to create reusable technical capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
• Strong coding, design, debugging, and systems thinking skills.
• Experience improving platform usability, reliability, monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, and operational maturity for internal customers.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and improving service operations in production environments.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Ability to independently identify important platform problems and drive solutions from concept through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of shared cloud platform capabilities with a strong focus on Kubernetes-based systems.
• Build reusable abstractions, tooling, and platform services that reduce complexity for internal customers.
• Design and develop operators, controllers, and related platform components that improve automation, consistency, operability, and platform safety.
• Improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, release safety, and other operational practices needed to run highly reliable services.
• Improve the developer experience by making platform capabilities easier to consume, integrate with, and operate.
• Partner across teams to identify systemic friction and deliver technical solutions that scale across the platform.
• Contribute deeply to architecture, implementation, code quality, testing, and technical direction for cloud platform systems.
• Participate in on-call activities, incident response, and operational improvement work for platform services.
• Help improve reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability of platform services running across Azure and GCP.
• Lead by example in engineering standards, design reviews, and thoughtful technical mentorship.
• Influence technical direction across team boundaries without relying on formal authority.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native platforms

Operators/Controllers

Go/Java production

On-call / incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Go

Java

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform to join the Atmos team and help build GM’s Nova cloud platform powering OnStar, GM Energy, and Commercial fleets. You will lead design, implement reusable platform services, and drive architectural direction at scale across Azure and GCP.

You will own operators and control-plane components, improve observability, and mentor teams while collaborating across regions.