Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity

What Youll Do (Responsibilities)

• Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code perform code reviews and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems.

• Proactively identify and address 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 the engineers to use the existing tools effectively.

• Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors

• Influence the teams technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision

• Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization and create tooling which encourages these

• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt

• Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)

• 7 years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that coordination across multiple teams senior executives and front-line engineers

• 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

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience working with GCP AWS or Azure

• Familiarity with Kubernetes Docker Istio Terraform Prometheus Grafana TSDBs and observability pipelines (e.g. either for logging or metrics or tracing)

• Skilled in defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs

• Own or contribute to Open Source projects

• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Remote or Hybrid: This role is categorized as remote or hybrid. This means the successful candidate if within 50 mile radius of GM locationis expected to report to the office three times per week at minimum.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York Colorado California or Washington.

• The salary range for this role: is$280000 to $385000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more.