Description

The Role

As a Manager, Software Engineering , you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building, scaling, and operating highly reliable, production-grade software systems. This role blends people leadership with strong technical depth—we expect our engineering managers to remain close to the code, architecture, and technical decision-making that shape our platforms.

While you may not code full-time, you will actively contribute through design reviews, code reviews, technical mentorship, and hands-on problem solving when needed. You will partner closely with your team to deliver high-quality software, guide architectural direction, and ensure systems are built with reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. This role is ideal for a leader who can set a high engineering bar, lead by example, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, setting technical direction, priorities, and execution plans aligned with broader organizational goals

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade software systems and internal tooling that improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity

• Drive engineering best practices across code quality, testing, deployment, and system design

• Review architecture and code to ensure systems are built with reliability patterns such as fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and scalability

• Partner closely with product and engineering stakeholders to deliver high-impact features while balancing reliability, performance, and time-to-market

• Support a “you build it, you run it” culture with full service ownership

• Participate in and support on-call rotations as needed, helping diagnose and resolve complex production issues

• Lead incident reviews and postmortems, turning learnings into concrete engineering improvements

• Define and manage reliability goals using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

• Advocate for performance improvements and architectural optimizations that reduce operational overhead

Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• 8+ years of experience on software engineering teams building and operating production systems

• Demonstrated experience leading engineers through technical mentorship, code reviews, and architectural decision-making

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, networking, databases, and storage

• Deep understanding of how software executes on underlying infrastructure

• Experience debugging and improving complex production systems

• Experience automating workflows, CI/CD pipelines, or developer tooling

• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes

• Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems

• Prior experience with Java in production environments

The compensation information is a good faith estimate only and is provided in accordance with applicable state laws. Compensation may vary for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

Base Salary Range: $160,200 – $333,400.
Actual compensation will be determined based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: This role is eligible for an incentive pay program based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

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 categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About GM

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Why Join Us 

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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