Staff Platform Engineer — Build a Developer-First Cloud

General Motors Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Sickness and accident benefits

Life insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff-level platform engineer to design and build core cloud platform capabilities end to end. You will write production Go code, define APIs, and set technical direction for platform areas, mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to remove toil.

You will work with SRE to define meaningful SLOs, focus on self-service infrastructure, declarative provisioning, and fast, safe delivery from merge to production with rollback and policy built in.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years building and operating production infrastructure or platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core platform capabilities end to end, from API design through production operations.
• Set technical direction for platform areas and mentor senior engineers.
• Eliminate toil with code and automation; deliver golden paths for easy shipping.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

Cloud platform

SRE collaboration

APIs design

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

Kubernetes operators

Azure

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff-level platform engineer to design and build core cloud platform capabilities end to end. You will write production Go code, define APIs, and set technical direction for platform areas, mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to remove toil.

You will work with SRE to define meaningful SLOs, focus on self-service infrastructure, declarative provisioning, and fast, safe delivery from merge to production with rollback and policy built in.