General Motors

Senior Platform Engineer - AV Cloud Engineering

General Motors • $170K — $230K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in technical strategy execution across teams and executives.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes in production and familiarity with major cloud providers.
  • Proficient in Go, Python, or similar languages for building automation and services.
  • Experience with high-availability distributed systems in production.
  • Professional experience managing hardware-level performance versus cloud abstractions.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments and translate high-level requirements into technical tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance internal platform capabilities and self-service workflows.
  • Design abstractions for product teams to utilize complex infrastructure smoothly.
  • Improve platform primitives for AV workloads including traffic and service mesh.
  • Minimize operational toil via reusable tools and declarative automation.
  • Oversee complex platform projects from concept to implementation and adoption.
  • Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to enhance platform reliability.
  • Foster a healthy engineering culture through mentorship and technical reviews.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation and holidays for work-life balance.
  • Tuition assistance programs to support ongoing education.
  • Employee discounts on GM vehicles and services.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Cloud Engineering team within AV Core Infrastructure. AV Cloud Engineering owns core IaaS and PaaS capabilities that support autonomous vehicle development and runtime environments.

This role is for an engineer who treats cloud infrastructure as a product and is motivated by building a reliable, easy-to-consume platform that helps AV engineers build, test, and run faster with less operational friction. You will work on the platform capabilities, abstractions, and self-service workflows that power AV workloads at scale. You should be comfortable turning broad infrastructure problems into durable engineering solutions and improving developer velocity through software, automation, and thoughtful platform design.

What You'll Do

  • Build and evolve internal platform capabilities, self-service workflows, APIs, and automation that make the right path the easiest path for AV engineering teams.


  • Design clean abstractions that allow product and research teams to consume complex infrastructure, including specialized hardware such as GPUs, without deep infrastructure expertise.


  • Improve platform primitives across traffic, service mesh, runtime configuration, and connectivity for distributed AV workloads.


  • Reduce toil and improve reliability through reusable platform tooling, declarative automation, strong service ownership, observability, and SLIs/SLOs.


  • Take ownership of complex platform initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and adoption.


  • Partner with adjacent AV infrastructure teams to reduce developer friction and improve the reliability of the platform AV engineers depend on.


  • Contribute to a healthy engineering culture through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and clear technical communication.


Skills & Abilities:
  • Required: Fully qualified proficiency in Kubernetes (GKE) and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, including VPC, IAM, etc.
  • Required: Hands-on experience implementing high-availability systems and managing the lifecycle of production-grade clusters.
  • Required: Strong proficiency in software engineering and DevOps principles, specifically using Golang/Python and Terraform.
  • Required: Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment and translate high-level requirements into clear technical tasks.
  • Required: A "Growth-based Mindset" with a commitment to continuous upskilling and a belief that team capacities are developed through effort and coaching.
  • Required: Professional experience managing the trade-offs between hardware-level performance (GPU passthrough) and clean cloud abstractions.
  • Preferred: Experience with Service Mesh (Istio) and managing large-scale DNS/Traffic configurations in a global environment.


Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)
  • 5+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production and strong familiarity with at least one major cloud ecosystem such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with the ability to build reusable automation, services, APIs, or controllers.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-availability distributed systems in production.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio and large-scale DNS or traffic management.


  • Experience with GKE and the broader GCP ecosystem, including networking and IAM; equivalent experience with EKS/AWS or AKS/Azure is also valuable.


  • Experience supporting AI/ML workloads or working with ML platforms and related tooling ecosystems.


  • Experience owning or influencing platform SLOs and availability targets in production.


  • Experience driving technical strategy or cross-functional alignment across multiple teams.


Additional Context

This role is best suited for engineers who want to build an internal platform product for other engineers. It is less suited to candidates whose background is primarily ticket-driven infrastructure support or one-off environment operations.

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Sunnyvale or Austin office three times per week, at minimum.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.
  • The salary range for this role: is $170,000 to $230,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
  • Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more.

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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