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About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. This engineer will start delivering impact through observability frameworks and will evolve depending on business needs but they will be expected to identify high ROI investments with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

Using software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems.
Proactively identifying and addressing challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability.
Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide engineers to use existing tools effectively.
Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors.
Influencing the team’s technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision.
Driving software engineering best practices both within the team and across the AV organization, and creating tooling which encourages these.
Guiding the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt.
Mentoring and growing engineers on the team and across the organization.

Requirements

10+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience.
Experience driving consensus on a multi-functional effort using influence without authority.
Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems.
Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes).
Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, NodeJS or equivalent.
Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals.
Effective collaboration skills and experience researching, documenting, communicating, and defending proposals and taking and giving critical feedback.
Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Skills

Observability frameworks
Software and systems engineering
Code reviews
Technical designs
Distributed cloud systems
On-vehicle sensors
Container orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
Go
Python
Rust
C/C++
NodeJS
Unix/Linux
SSH
Networking fundamentals
GCP
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
Docker
Istio
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana
TSDBs
Observability pipelines (logging, metrics, tracing)
SLIs
SLOs

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal Engineer
10+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience

Salary/Compensations

$280,000 to $384,600

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement savings plan
Sickness and accident benefits
Life insurance
Paid vacation & holidays
Tuition assistance programs
Employee assistance program
GM vehicle discounts
Company vehicle evaluation program

About the Company

The AV Developer Productivity organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers in the GM Autonomous org use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process — how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

Equal Opportunity

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
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