Drimva

General Motors

Staff Software Engineer – Developer Experience

Austin Technical Center - Austin Technical Center · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026

Experience
8+ years of experience in software development.
Visa sponsorship
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role; applicants who will need GM sponsorship now or in the future should not apply.

About the job

Leads developer productivity strategy and builds tools, workflows, metrics, automation, and AI-driven solutions to improve software delivery and developer experience across GM.

What you'll do

  • Set technical strategy and deliver developer platforms, golden paths, and automation that improve productivity, quality, and satisfaction.
  • Embed AI into engineering workflows and use outcome-focused metrics to guide tooling and investment decisions.
  • Partner across teams, influence engineering standards, and mentor engineers on software engineering and AI-assisted development.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of experience in software development.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern language and experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Deep experience designing and operating modern CI/CD pipelines and release processes; hands-on experience with developer platforms and SDLC tooling.
  • Understanding of a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code, and security, compliance, and governance concerns.

Nice to have

  • Experience in platform engineering, SRE, internal developer platforms, or Developer Experience / Developer Productivity / DevTools organizations.
  • Background in large, regulated, or safety-critical environments.

Tools

Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript, GitHub/GitLab, Azure/AWS/GCP, Terraform

AI focus

Embed AI in engineering workflows, including agents and copilots for planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operations; integrate AI/ML into engineering workflows and help lead a shift to an AI-native engineering organization.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)