Staff Platform Engineer - DevOps & Infotainment CI/CD

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors in California seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the DevOps and platform engineering direction for infotainment build systems across VCU and CCU. You will own architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity tooling, delivering high-quality software at scale with end-to-end ownership.

You will collaborate with engineering, release management, quality, and infra teams to modernize CI/CD, observability, and release workflows; mentor engineers, influence architecture in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/EE or related field.
• 10+ years in software engineering, DevOps, build/platform/release engineering at staff level.
• Proven experience leading large initiatives across multiple teams from design through production rollout.
• Strong experience designing and operating scalable CI/CD systems and developer platforms.
• Deep knowledge of build/automation tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Experience with embedded Linux build systems and cross-compilation environments.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architecture for DevOps, CI/CD, and build platforms for VCU/CCU infotainment systems.
• Design and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines for embedded Linux builds and release workflows.
• Improve build performance with distributed build systems, caching, and infrastructure optimization.
• Automate release processes including branching, versioning, artifact promotion, quality gates, and compliance checks.
• Build self-service platforms, tooling, and dashboards to accelerate delivery for engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on CI/CD best practices and infrastructure patterns; drive architecture in a matrix organization.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

Golang

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Observability

Linux

Yocto

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Yocto/OpenEmbedded

Job description

General Motors in California seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the DevOps and platform engineering direction for infotainment build systems across VCU and CCU. You will own architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity tooling, delivering high-quality software at scale with end-to-end ownership.

You will collaborate with engineering, release management, quality, and infra teams to modernize CI/CD, observability, and release workflows; mentor engineers, influence architecture in