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About the Role
This Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience role focuses on Developer Productivity & Insights, defining how engineering effectiveness is measured and understood. The team provides tools, platforms, metrics, and enablement programs to reduce friction for engineers, streamline software delivery, and improve developer satisfaction and productivity across General Motors. The role involves shaping metrics strategy, defining golden paths, evaluating AI's impact on developer workflows, and translating data into actionable improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for platforms, tools, and workflows that improve developer productivity, quality, and satisfaction.
- Design and implement golden paths for shipping software, covering repo structure, CI/CD, testing, security, observability, and deployment.
- Build automation and self-service capabilities to reduce manual toil.
- Embed AI into engineering workflows, including agents and copilots.
- Partner with product, security, infra, and application teams to identify pain points and translate them into platform and tooling improvements.
- Act as a multiplier and mentor across the organization, coaching engineers on software engineering, AI-assisted development, and recommended practices.
- Define and track outcome-focused metrics and use data to guide investments.
- Contribute to and influence engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Staff Engineer or senior technical leader driving technical strategy and execution across multiple teams.
- Strong systems thinking and product mindset.
- AI-native mindset: experience using and integrating AI/ML into engineering workflows or strong evidence of ability to ramp quickly.
- Track record of technical leadership without formal authority.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs and build trust.
- 8+ years of experience in software development.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript) and in designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
- Deep experience designing and operating modern CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling (e.g., GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD systems, Jira/ADO, artifact repositories, secrets management, feature flags).
- Solid understanding of at least one major cloud platform (Azure/AWS/GCP) and infrastructure as code.
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance concerns for developer platforms.
- Experience with migration and modernization.
Skills
- Developer Experience
- Developer Productivity
- AI/ML integration
- Software development
- Distributed systems
- CI/CD pipelines
- SDLC tooling
- Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
- Infrastructure as code
- Security
- Compliance
- Governance
- Migration and modernization
Location
- Austin TX IT Innovation Center
- Warren Michigan GM Technical Center
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- Senior technical leader
- 8+ years of experience in software development
Benefits
- GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally.
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.
- 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.
- General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.