Staff Platform Engineer, Cloud Platform
General Motors24 hours ago
Warren, MI, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$160k - $333k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build core internal cloud platform capabilities from API design through production operations.
- Set technical direction for platform areas and produce design documents for implementation.
- Eliminate developer toil and platform instability through software and automation.
- Build golden paths for software delivery and self-service infrastructure provisioning.
- Develop APIs, CLI tools, and MCP interfaces for engineers and AI agents.
- Partner with SRE on reliability, on-call practices, incident reviews, and measurable SLOs.
- Mentor senior engineers and review designs and code across teams.
- Work directly with application teams to improve the developer platform experience.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience building and operating production infrastructure or platforms, including several years in a senior or staff role with cross-team technical leadership.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience at scale, including cluster operations, multi-tenancy, autoscaling, and upgrades.
- Strong software engineering skills in Go or a comparable language, with experience writing production code.
- Experience designing and operating an internal developer platform, PaaS, or cloud control plane.
- Expertise with infrastructure as code and declarative provisioning using Terraform, Crossplane, or Kubernetes operators and controllers.
- Strong grounding in cloud networking, identity, and security, preferably on Azure.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, observability, and blameless incident practices.
- Strong developer-experience product judgment, technical communication, and simplification skills.
- Preferred experience with Istio or another service mesh, Gateway API, ArgoCD, Kargo, KEDA, Karpenter, or Kyverno.
- Preferred experience migrating large platforms with zero downtime, using Azure Event Hubs or Kafka, designing cell-based or multi-region architectures, building MCP servers, optimizing cloud costs, developing FinOps data pipelines, or contributing to cloud-native open source.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, and life insurance.
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- Tuition assistance and employee assistance programs.
- GM vehicle discounts.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week at a specific location, or another frequency set by the manager.
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About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.