Principal Software Engineer - Developer Experience
General MotorsResponsibilities
- Set and lead technical strategy and delivery for developer productivity platforms, tools, and workflows across GM.
- Define and drive adoption of golden paths covering repository structure, CI/CD, testing, security, observability, and deployment.
- Build automation and self-service capabilities for environment provisioning, pipeline setup, guardrail enforcement, and standards checks.
- Lead the strategy for embedding AI agents, copilots, and intelligent automation into planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operations.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and application leaders to translate engineering pain points into platform and tooling improvements.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and drive cross-team technical alignment without formal authority.
- Define and govern outcome-focused engineering metrics and use data to guide investments.
- Shape engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures used across Core IT and beyond.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, including significant experience in senior, staff, or principal-level roles.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, Go, C#, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
- Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and release processes, including build, test, deployment, release strategies, rollback, and environment promotion.
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling, including source control, CI/CD systems, Jira or Azure DevOps, artifact repositories, secrets management, and feature flags.
- Experience using or integrating AI/ML into engineering workflows, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly.
- Strong systems thinking, product mindset, communication skills, and experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
- Preferred: experience in platform engineering, SRE, internal developer platforms, Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, or DevTools organizations.
- Preferred: experience in large, regulated, or safety-critical environments with strong security, compliance, and reliability requirements.
- General Motors does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.
Benefits
- GM provides well-being support and total rewards resources from day one.
- The posting includes equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support.
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About General Motors
General Motors’ vision is to create a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, and we have committed ourselves to leading the way toward this future. Today, we are in the midst of a transportation revolution, and we have the ambition, the talent and the technology to realize the safer, better and more sustainable world we want. As an open, inclusive company, we’re also creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for who they are. One team, where all ideas are considered and heard, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential, with a culture based in respect, integrity, accountability and equality. Our team brings wide-ranging perspectives and experiences to solving the complex transportation challenges of today and tomorrow. For information on the GM Privacy Statement, please visit http://www.gm.com/privacy-statement.html