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About the Role
We are seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team and improve the experience of building and running software on GM's cloud platform. This is a Staff-level, hands-on engineering role focused on enhancing the entire cloud platform, including its foundations, control plane, and runtime. You will write code, set technical direction, and elevate the engineering standards for those around you.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core platform capabilities end to end, from API design through production operations.
- Set technical direction for one or more platform areas and write design documents.
- Identify and eliminate sources of developer toil and platform instability through code and automation.
- Build golden paths to make the correct way to ship at GM the easiest way.
- Utilize AI tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, agents) in daily work and enable platform usability by agents via APIs and MCP.
- Partner with SRE on reliability, on-call duties, and incident reviews, ensuring the platform meets measurable SLOs.
- Mentor senior engineers, review designs and code across teams, and model desired engineering standards.
- Collaborate with application teams to identify and resolve platform impediments.
Requirements
- Ten or more years of experience building and operating production infrastructure or platforms, with several years in a senior or staff role with cross-team technical leadership.
- Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production at scale, including cluster operations, multi-tenancy, autoscaling, and upgrades.
- Strong software engineering skills in Go or a comparable language, with experience writing production code.
- Experience designing and running an internal developer platform, PaaS, or cloud control plane.
- Expertise with infrastructure as code and declarative provisioning (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane, Kubernetes operators/controllers).
- Solid grounding in cloud networking, identity, and security, preferably on Azure.
- A track record of improving reliability through SLOs, observability, and blameless incident practice.
- Strong product sense for developer experience, paying attention to details like CLI output, error messages, and documentation.
- Judgment to simplify systems, preferring deletion over addition.
- Clear written communication skills and the ability to gain buy-in for designs from skeptical audiences.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Go
- Infrastructure as Code
- Declarative Provisioning
- Terraform
- Crossplane
- Kubernetes Operators
- Kubernetes Controllers
- Cloud Networking
- Identity Management
- Security
- SLOs
- Observability
- Incident Management
- Developer Experience
- API Design
- CLI Tools
- MCP Tools
- AI Tooling
- Service Mesh
- Gateway API
- ArgoCD
- Kargo
- KEDA
- Karpenter
- Kyverno
- Event Streaming Platforms
- Azure Event Hubs
- Kafka
- Cell-based Architectures
- Multi-region Architectures
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- FinOps
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff-level
- Senior
- Ten or more years
Salary/Compensations
- $160,200–$333,400
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement savings plan
- Sickness and accident benefits
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays
- Tuition assistance programs
- Employee assistance program
- GM vehicle discounts
About the Company
- 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.
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.
- General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.