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General Motors · 2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Observability

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$200K/yr - $285K/yr
date5+ years exp

General Motors is a leader in the automotive industry, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Observability team. The role involves managing a team of engineers, defining technical strategies for the observability platform, and ensuring effective incident response and cross-functional collaboration.

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Responsibilities

Team leadership: Manage and grow a team of engineers, conducting performance reviews, providing coaching, and supporting career development
Technical strategy: Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the observability platform, ensuring it provides actionable insights into complex systems
Architectural oversight: Provide technical guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing to ensure comprehensive visibility across GM’s AV software stack
Incident response: Ensure the team's tools enable rapid detection, debugging, and resolution of unknown or unforeseen system failures to minimize downtime
Cross-functional collaboration: Work with other engineering teams—such as those developing AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure—to implement observability practices and improve system reliability
Platform development: Lead the development of internal tools and data pipelines to collect, analyze, and visualize telemetry data at a massive scale
Vendor management: Manage relationships and costs associated with third-party observability software and platforms

Qualification

Software architectureCloud infrastructureObservability expertiseProgramming proficiencyLeadership experienceCommunication skills

Required

Leadership experience: 5+ years of experience leading software or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and balancing the tradeoff between velocity and reliability
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
Observability expertise: Deep understanding of core observability pillars: logs, metrics, and traces. Experience with technologies like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and log management systems is crucial
Software architecture: Strong background in designing, developing, and architecting distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices
Programming proficiency: Familiarity with Go, Python, Typescript or similar along with software development practices to inform code reviews and architectural decisions
Cloud infrastructure: Experience with modern cloud offerings like GCP, AWS, or Azure and technologies like CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker
Communication skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders

Preferred

Management experience: 3+ years of experience managing software engineering or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams
Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs and observability pipelines (e.g. either for logging or metrics or tracing)
Skilled in defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs
Own or contribute to Open Source projects
Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world

Benefits

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
Company vehicle evaluation program

Company

General Motors

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General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
dateFounded in 1908
location
Detroit, Michigan, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://www.gm.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.51B
Key Investors
US Department of Energy
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
2024-07-11Grant· $500M

Leadership Team

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Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
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