Engineering Manager, Observability
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 200000 - 285000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
About Us
The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM 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.
The Role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a deep technical background experience building and running engineering teams 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 engineers on and off the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business our users and the growth of our engineers.
This leader 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.
What Youll Do (Responsibilities)
Team leadership: Manage and grow a team of engineers conducting performance reviews providing coaching and supporting career development.
Technical strategy: Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the observability platform ensuring it provides actionable insights into complex systems.
Architectural oversight: Provide technical guidance on instrumentation logging metrics and tracing to ensure comprehensive visibility across GMs AV software stack.
Incident response: Ensure the teams tools enable rapid detection debugging and resolution of unknown or unforeseen system failures to minimize downtime.
Cross-functional collaboration: Work with other engineering teamssuch as those developing AI/ML firmware and infrastructureto implement observability practices and improve system reliability.
Platform development: Lead the development of internal tools and data pipelines to collect analyze and visualize telemetry data at a massive scale.
Vendor management: Manage relationships and costs associated with third-party observability software and platforms.
Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)
Leadership experience: 5 years of experience leading software or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and balancing the tradeoff between velocity and reliability
Observability expertise: Deep understanding of core observability pillars: logs metrics and traces. Experience with technologies like Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry and log management systems is crucial
Software architecture: Strong background in designing developing and architecting distributed systems cloud-native applications and microservices
Programming proficiency: Familiarity with Go Python Typescript or similar along with software development practices to inform code reviews and architectural decisions
Cloud infrastructure: Experience with modern cloud offerings like GCP AWS or Azure and technologies like CI/CD pipelines Kubernetes and Docker
Communication skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)
Management experience: 3 years of experience managing software engineering or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams.
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 location is expected to report to the officethree 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$200000 to $285000. 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.
About GM
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.
Why Join Us
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.
Benefits Overview
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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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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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