General Motors

Software Engineering Manager - CI/CD, Configuration Management and Embedded SW Dev Tools

General Motors$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, developer tools, DevOps, platform engineering, or CI/CD systems with leadership responsibility.
  • Proven track record in managing enterprise-scale build, release, and configuration management platforms.
  • Expertise in Git-based workflows and repository governance through GitHub Enterprise.
  • Strong understanding of embedded software development workflows relevant to software-defined vehicle environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms emphasizing scalability and security considerations.
  • Strong communication and organizational leadership skills to align teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing software tools and platform engineering team focused on CI/CD and configuration management.
  • Define technical strategy, priorities, and delivery plans for the OPTIMUS platform and cloud toolchain capabilities.
  • Establish governance standards for repository management, artifact handling, and workflow consistency.
  • Drive platform reliability, scalability, and security across an array of tooling and developer environments.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver new capabilities and improve the software development experience.
  • Monitor platform health using metrics and dashboards to enhance developer productivity and quality.
  • Support roadmap planning and resource allocation for engineering workflows.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement with in-office requirements.
  • Potential for relocation benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our CI/CD and Embedded Software Development Tools team, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD and configuration management. This role is responsible for leading a team that owns the platforms, workflows, governance, and developer tooling that enable scalable, secure, reliable, and efficient embedded software delivery across the GM embedded software development ecosystem.

This leader will combine people leadership, technical depth, and operational discipline to drive strategy and execution across source control governance, artifact lifecycle management, reusable workflows, developer environments, cloud-hosted tooling, observability, and configuration standards. The role requires close partnership with product engineering, site reliability, security, IT and external partners to continuously improve software quality, developer productivity, and platform health.

What You'll Do:
  • Lead and develop a high-performing software tools and platform engineering team responsible for CI/CD, configuration management, and embedded software development tooling.
  • Define team strategy, technical priorities, operating rhythms, and delivery plans for the OPTIMUS platform and related cloud toolchain capabilities.
  • Establish and enforce standards for repository governance, branching strategy, artifact management, secrets handling, workflow reuse, and build environment consistency.
  • Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across GitHub, Artifactory, Azure, cloud agents, developer environments, and supporting applications.
  • Partner with product, IT infrastructure, site reliability, and security stakeholders to deliver new capabilities, resolve systemic issues, and modernize the embedded software development experience.
  • Monitor platform and build health using dashboards and quality metrics, and lead actions that improve developer productivity, build efficiency, and software quality.
  • Support roadmap planning, resource allocation, cross-team alignment, supplier enablement, and user support processes for critical engineering workflows.
  • Build team capability through coaching, hiring, performance management, and clear technical direction.
  • Balance near-term operational support with long-term platform modernization and standardization.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, continuous improvement, and customer-focused platform delivery.


Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • Significant experience (5+ years) in software engineering, developer tools, DevOps, platform engineering, or CI/CD systems, including leadership responsibility for complex technical programs and teams.
  • Demonstrated success leading teams that design, operate, and improve enterprise-scale build, release, developer workflow, or configuration management platforms.
  • Expertise with Git-based development workflows and repository governance in GitHub Enterprise, including permissions, branch protections, standards, and multi-repository development models.
  • Strong understanding of embedded software development workflows, quality gates, and the needs of software-defined vehicle development environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms and distributed systems, including scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence considerations.
  • Experience leading teams working with automation platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD technologies.
  • Experience partnering across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, IT and operations organizations to deliver platform outcomes at scale.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders and coach technical teams through change.
  • Experience with Azure services, Azure Virtual Desktop, and cloud-based engineering solutions.


Preferred qualifications
  • Strong experience with artifact management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory and lifecycle management for software build assets.
  • Experience with developer tooling ecosystems such as VS Code, Gerrit, manifest-based build tooling, and related integrations across enterprise engineering workflows.
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and the use of platform metrics to improve delivery performance and software quality.


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