Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

General Motors (GM)

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$218,800–$335,300 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $233k
This role $277k
$174k most similar roles pay here $353k

This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $195,075–$270,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $277k versus about $233k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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General Motors (GM) is a leading American multinational automotive corporation founded in 1908 and headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Engineering Manager, Developer Experience joins the AV Developer Productivity team to enhance the development lifecycle for autonomous vehicle engineers. This leader manages and grows a team of engineers while defining the technical vision and roadmap for an observability platform. Day-to-day responsibilities include providing architectural oversight on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing across the software stack, managing vendor relationships, and developing internal tools and data pipelines to analyze telemetry at scale. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices. Candidates should possess proficiency in Go, Python, and TypeScript, along with experience in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker. The position focuses on creating a robust inner loop development experience to optimize the production of quality code for autonomous vehicle software by improving developer tools and infrastructure reliability.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers through performance reviews, coaching, and career development support.
  • Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the internal observability platform.
  • Provide architectural guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing across the AV software stack.
  • Develop internal tools and data pipelines to collect and visualize telemetry data at a massive scale.
  • Manage relationships and costs associated with third-party vendor tools and platforms.
  • Ensure team tools enable rapid detection and resolution of system failures to minimize downtime.
  • Identify high ROI investments for developer productivity with minimal guidance.

What we're looking for

  • Must have at least 7 years of leadership experience managing software or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams.
  • Must possess deep expertise in developer tools and machine learning engineering workflows.
  • Must have a strong background in designing and architecting distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices.
  • Must be proficient in programming languages such as Go, Python, or TypeScript.
  • Must have experience with modern cloud infrastructure including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Must have experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Must possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

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