Staff Software Engineer, NextGen Infotainment & DevOps

General Motors LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Relocation benefits

Incentive pay program

Job summary

General Motors LLC in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture and delivery pipelines for NextGen infotainment across multiple vehicle programs. You will drive CI/CD, observability, and developer productivity at scale, shaping how software is built, tested and released.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with release management, quality, infrastructure, and program stakeholders to modernize CI/CD and raise the bar for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering, DevOps, build engineering, platform engineering, or release engineering at staff-level scope.
• Strong experience designing and operating scalable CI/CD systems and developer platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Experience with embedded Linux build systems, cross-compilation environments, or complex platform build pipelines, plus strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash, Groovy, or similar) and cloud/container experience (Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud).
• Hands-on observability practice (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting) with the ability to mentor, influence architecture, and execute in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and architecture for DevOps, CI/CD, and build platforms supporting NextGen infotainment across multiple vehicle programs.
• Design and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines for embedded Linux (Yocto) builds, including orchestration, test automation, artifact management, release workflows, distributed builds (BuildBarn/RBE), and caching.
• Automate release processes including branching, versioning, artifact promotion, quality gates, and compliance checks.
• Build self-service platforms, GitHub automation, and dashboards that cut manual effort and accelerate developer feedback loops.
• Drive end-to-end observability and operational excellence, and lead cross-functional initiatives from concept to production while mentoring engineers and raising the bar through design reviews, process improvement, and hiring.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Platform engineering

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Cloud platforms

Observability

Architectural design

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/EE or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAI/AI tooling in DevOps

Job description

General Motors LLC in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture and delivery pipelines for NextGen infotainment across multiple vehicle programs. You will drive CI/CD, observability, and developer productivity at scale, shaping how software is built, tested and released.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner with release management, quality, infrastructure, and program stakeholders to modernize CI/CD and raise the bar for