Staff Platform Engineer - CI/CD for Embedded

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Remote; USD 171,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle program

Bonus potential

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software‑defined vehicles. You will lead a major capability across teams, drive architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will architect enterprise-scale CI/CD for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads, define branching and quality gates, and lead GitOps delivery across multi-cluster Kubernetes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development.
• Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
• Experience shipping high quality safety critical products.
• Exceptional problem‑solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an action‑oriented decision‑making environment.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations.
• Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production‑grade module design.
• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, SIL, FMU, SSP).
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• 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 the team 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.
• Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems.
• Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization.

Skills

Software architecture

Real-time systems

Embedded / simulation

Leadership & mentorship

Problem solving

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Master's degree in software engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

GitOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale engineering platforms for embedded software in software‑defined vehicles. You will lead a major capability across teams, drive architecture, standards, and measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, release confidence, and product quality.

You will architect enterprise-scale CI/CD for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads, define branching and quality gates, and lead GitOps delivery across multi-cluster Kubernetes