General Motors
Engineering Manager, Observability
$219K–$335K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Warren, Michigan, United States of America - Experience
- 7+ years of leadership experience managing software or SRE teams.
About the job
Leads the AV Observability team in building and operating tools and platforms that help GM engineers monitor, diagnose, and improve system performance and reliability.
What you'll do
- Manage, coach, and develop engineers while setting the observability platform’s technical strategy and roadmap.
- Guide instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing; lead telemetry tools and data pipelines and support incident response.
- Coordinate with engineering teams and vendors to improve reliability and manage third-party platform costs.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of leadership experience managing software or site reliability engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of logs, metrics, and traces, with experience using observability technologies.
- Background designing and architecting distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and microservices.
- Programming familiarity with Go, Python, Typescript, or similar, and experience with modern cloud infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs, and observability pipelines.
- Experience defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs; open-source contributions are also valued.
Pay
$218,800- $335,300 USD base salary
Tools
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Go, Python, Typescript, GCP, AWS
AI focus
The team uses agentic AI workflows; the manager collaborates with AI/ML teams on observability practices and system reliability.
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