Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity

Job Listing ID:

4378357

Job Title:

Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity

Application Deadline:

Open Until Filled

Job Location:

Salem

Date Posted:

11/01/2025

Hours Worked Per Week:

Not Provided

Shift:

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Duration of Job:

Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months SR You may contact this employer directly. (Obtain the contact information to print or add to your jobs.) Obtain Contact Information Job Summary Job Description This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Mountain View or Sunnyvale, you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum. About Us The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM - how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here have world class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain. The Role We are looking for a Principal Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. This engineer will start delivering impact through observability frameworks and will evolve depending on business needs but they will be expected to identify high ROI investments with minimal guidance. What You'll Do (Responsibilities) Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems. Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability. Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively. Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors Influence the team's technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization, and create tooling which encourages these Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have) 7+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience Experience driving consensus on a multi-functional effort using influence without authority Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes) Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, NodeJS or equivalent Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals Effective collaboration skills and experience researching, documenting, communicating, and defending proposals and taking and giving critical feedback Experience ... Software Developers Access our Statewide and Regional occupation report for more information about wages, employment outlooks, skills, training programs, related occupations, and more. Compensation Not Provided Job Requirements

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Education Required:

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