Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Efficiencies

Description
The Role
The Engineering Efficiencies team works hands-on with various high-priority projects within the Infrastructure Engineering organization. The team's core mandate is to:

• Provide flexible engineering capacity to the Infrastructure Engineering organization.

• Provide a growth path for early-career engineers to develop into expanded roles across GM.

Infrastructure Engineering seeks to provide world-class software infrastructure that empowers teams across GM to build the best vehicle software in the industry. Some of the domains this includes are vehicle services, developer tooling, test automation, and cloud infrastructure platforms.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead key engagements with our partner teams within Infrastructure Engineering to deliver on high-visibility problems end to end. You will write and review production code and raise the bar on architecture, reliability, and software engineering excellence. You will act as a technical leader and mentor, pairing with early-career engineers on design, planning, and delivery, and ensuring consistent high-quality outcomes. You will have a wide view of the systems at GM and find points of cross-functional improvement.
What You'll Do

• Lead key engagements end-to-end in collaboration with stakeholders on other teams

• Deliver high-quality, well-tested production code

• Mentor early-career engineers via pairing and actionable feedback to accelerate growth and autonomy.

• Uplevel engineering practices across the org: system design, CI/CD optimization, test strategy, build and review pipelines, and release discipline

• Improve observability and operational readiness with metrics, logs, traces, runbooks, and post-incident learning

• Translate recurring pain points into reusable libraries, templates, and golden paths that compound team efficiency

• Partner cross-functionally (platform, TPM, SRE, security, product) to de-risk dependencies and land pragmatic designs

• Establish measurable milestones on each project and reporting progress against them

• Build a culture of software engineering excellence in both the Engineering Efficiencies team and in the wider Infrastructure Engineering organization

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent rigor demonstrated through experience)

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering organizations as an individual contributor

• A strong track record leading the end-to-end design and development of complex software initiatives

• A deep, T-shaped engineering foundation: you're broadly fluent across platforms, paradigms, and tooling, while possessing real depth in at least a couple major areas

• A persistent curiosity, both technologically and organizationally

• A genuine passion for teaching and mentoring, and a track record of helping engineers level up through code reviews, architectural guidance, workshops, and well-crafted docs

• The ability to context switch gracefully and add value across multiple teams or problem spaces without losing the strategic thread

• A demonstrated knack for rapidly evaluating and adopting new technologies

• Motivation to influence engineering culture at scale-raising quality bars, shaping technical standards, and amplifying impact beyond your own code

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating solutions on a major cloud platform-particularly Microsoft Azure

• Practical infrastructure-as-code expertise

• Proven experience implementing secure and reliable CI/CD automation

• Full-stack application development experience: Spring Boot (or similar backend web development framework) for backend services and modern SPA frameworks like Angular or React for frontend delivery

• Containerization and orchestration proficiency: building images, managing runtime concerns, and operating workloads with Docker/Kubernetes

• Strong relational database skills

Compensation : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is $165,000 to $298,800. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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