Staff Software Engineer - DevOps/VCU-CCU Infotainment Systems
General Motors1 day ago
Base Salary
$189k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture for DevOps, CI/CD, and build platforms supporting VCU/CCU infotainment systems.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for embedded Linux and Yocto builds, including orchestration, test automation, artifact management, and release workflows.
- Improve build performance and reliability through distributed build systems, caching, and infrastructure optimization.
- Automate branching, versioning, artifact promotion, quality gates, compliance checks, and other release processes.
- Build self-service platforms, tooling, dashboards, and GitHub automation to improve developer productivity.
- Establish observability using metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Apply AI/ML techniques to predictive build failures, intelligent test selection, resource optimization, anomaly detection, and incident prevention.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives from concept through production, including architecture reviews and trade-off communication.
- Mentor engineers on CI/CD, build engineering, and infrastructure practices, and contribute to code reviews, hiring, and team development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, build engineering, platform engineering, or release engineering roles aligned with staff-level scope.
- Experience leading large technical initiatives across multiple teams from design through production rollout.
- Strong experience designing and operating scalable CI/CD systems and developer platforms.
- Knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar build and automation tooling.
- Experience with embedded Linux build systems, cross-compilation environments, or complex platform build pipelines.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, Groovy, or similar languages.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud platform.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Strong architectural thinking across APIs, workflows, integrations, automation, and system reliability.
- Ability to mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive execution in a matrixed organization.
- Preferred experience includes automotive, embedded systems, infotainment, Android Automotive, Linux IVI, QNX, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, ARM platforms, distributed build systems, remote build execution, build caching, artifact repositories, static analysis, code quality, security scanning, and internal developer platforms.
- Preferred experience includes Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, SonarQube, Artifactory, compliance and release processes, machine learning for DevOps, AI-powered development tools, LLM-based code analysis, automated root cause analysis, MLOps, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Austin, Texas or Mountain View, California, with in-office attendance at least three times per week.
- Regular travel required at 25–50%.
- Relocation benefits may be available for eligible candidates.
- Eligible employees may participate in a company vehicle evaluation program after successful motor vehicle report review.
- Bonus potential is available through an incentive pay program based on company, job-level, and individual performance.
- GM provides benefits and total rewards resources beginning on day one.
Tech Stack
BashDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaGroovyJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSonarQubeTensorFlow
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.