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Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience
General Motors. Set and lead technical strategy and delivery for platforms, tools, and workflows improving developer productivity, quality, and satisfaction across GM .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed SystemsJavaPythonSDLCTypeScriptGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set and lead technical strategy and delivery for platforms, tools, and workflows improving developer productivity, quality, and satisfaction 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 to reduce manual toil, including environment provisioning, pipeline setup, guardrail enforcement, and standards checks
- Lead strategy for embedding AI into engineering workflows, including agents and copilots for planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operations
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and application leaders to translate pain points into platform and tooling improvements
- Mentor and coach engineers on software engineering, AI-assisted development, and recommended practices
- Define, socialize, and own outcome-focused engineering metrics such as lead time for changes, PR cycle time, change failure rate, and developer satisfaction
- Shape and govern engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures across Core IT and beyond
Requirements
What you’ll need- Proven experience as a Principal Engineer or senior technical leader driving technical strategy and execution across multiple teams or organizations
- Strong systems thinking and product mindset
- Experience using and integrating AI/ML into engineering workflows, or strong evidence of ability to ramp quickly
- Technical leadership without formal authority, including mentoring, design reviews, roadmap influence, and cross-team alignment
- Excellent communication skills
- 10+ years of experience in software development, including significant time in senior/staff/principal-level roles
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern language such as Java, Go, C#, Python, or TypeScript
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production
- Deep experience designing and operating modern CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling such as GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD systems, Jira/ADO, artifact repositories, secrets management, and feature flags
- GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship; applicants must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
- Preferred: experience in platform engineering, SRE, or internal developer platforms
- Preferred: background in large, regulated, or safety-critical environments
- Preferred: prior work in Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, or DevTools organizations
Benefits
Comp & perks- Benefits and Total Rewards resources available from day one
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
- Inclusive, non-discriminatory workplace
- Role-related assessment and/or pre-employment screening where applicable