Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness
Milford, CT - USA
Job Summary
Job Description
The Role:
General Motors isseekinga highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as aStaff Software Engineer Engineering Effectiveness.
This role is focused on improving the software development experience across teams byidentifyinghigh-impact friction in the way engineers work and building practical solutions that make the right path the easy path. The person in this role will look across tools workflows automation data visibility and developer usability to find opportunities to simplify connect and improve the overall engineering experience.
The ideal candidate is highly autonomous deeply hands-on and motivated by solving structural problems rather than only treating symptoms. They should be comfortable entering ambiguous situations understanding how teamswork and delivering solutions that improve correctness usability and long-term team effectiveness. This role will drive change through hands-on implementation technical leadership and collaboration with partner teams.
WhatYoullDo:
Identifyhigh-value opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness across tools workflows and developer experience
Build practical software solutions that simplify unify automate andoptimizesoftware-development workflows
Partner closely with teams to understand pain points and root causes then implement durable improvements
Improve the usability correctness and discoverability of engineering systems dashboards and self-service tools
Teach and enable partner teams so that improvementsremainsustainable after theinitialwork is complete
Work with a high degree of independence owning technical execution end to end with limited oversight
Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):
10 years of professional software engineering experience
Demonstrated ability to independentlyidentifyimportant technical problems and deliver effective solutions with limited oversight
Strongtrack recordof building software automation platforms or internal tools that improve developer productivity or engineering workflows
Excellent systems thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to distinguish root causes from surface-level symptoms
Experience working across team boundaries and influencing outcomes without relying on organizational authority
Passion for correctness usability and creating apit of successwhere the easiest path is also the right one
What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)
Experience in developer productivity developer experience platform engineering or software engineering effectiveness
Experience improving CI/CD source control workflows build systems testing workflows release processes or engineering automation
Experience designing or building dashboards developer portals workflow tooling or self-service internal platforms
Experience improving adoption and effectiveness of shared tools and processes across multiple teams
Strong coaching and mentoring instincts especially in helping teams build the skills needed to sustain progress independently
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 actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position as well as geography of the selected candidate.
The salary range for this role is $160200 and $265000. 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:
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
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
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