Staff DevOps Engineer - CI/CD, Build Automation, Edge & Robotics
General Motors2 days ago
Base Salary
$189k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve enterprise CI/CD pipelines and build automation for application, platform, embedded, edge, and robotics software.
- Develop reusable build, test, packaging, artifact, dependency, and deployment automation across multiple products, repositories, platforms, and environments.
- Build and maintain containerized workflows, secure container images, and Kubernetes deployments with infrastructure-as-code and declarative configuration.
- Establish release management, artifact promotion, versioning, rollback, approval, change-traceability, and fleet or site-level deployment processes.
- Extend delivery practices to edge devices and distributed environments, including provisioning, software updates, telemetry, remote deployment, and operational recovery.
- Support robotics software pipelines, including ROS2 drivers and components, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, packaging, validation, and field releases.
- Define engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable templates, and delivery paths while mentoring engineers and advising cross-functional teams.
- Troubleshoot complex failures across source control, builds, dependencies, testing, artifacts, networks, and deployment environments, and track delivery and reliability metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Significant professional experience in DevOps, CI/CD, build engineering, release engineering, software infrastructure, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production-quality CI/CD pipelines and build automation at scale.
- Strong experience with source control, automated testing, artifact and dependency management, release promotion, branching, versioning, quality gates, observability, and operational practices.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker or a comparable technology and Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying and supporting software across multiple environments and managing complex release dependencies.
- Ability to troubleshoot cross-functional technical problems and influence technical decisions through strong written and verbal communication.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and build tools, Kubernetes packaging, software supply-chain security, edge systems, robotics, device management, release governance, incident response, reliability engineering, and regulated or safety-critical environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week at the Sunnyvale, California office.
- Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Eligibility for a company vehicle evaluation program after successful motor vehicle report review, subject to program requirements.
- Bonus potential through an incentive pay program based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
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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.