Hybrid Staff Software Engineer – Engineering Efficiencies

at General Motors

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer – Engineering Efficiencies
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $165,000 - $298,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer leading engineering efficiencies in Infrastructure Engineering at GM. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance software reliability and mentoring early-career engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead key engagements end-to-end in collaboration with stakeholders on other teams
• Deliver high-quality, well-tested production code
• Mentor early-career engineers via pairing and actionable feedback to accelerate growth and autonomy.
• Uplevel engineering practices across the org: system design, CI/CD optimization, test strategy, build and review pipelines, and release discipline
• Improve observability and operational readiness with metrics, logs, traces, runbooks, and post-incident learning
• Translate recurring pain points into reusable libraries, templates, and golden paths that compound team efficiency
• Partner cross-functionally (platform, TPM, SRE, security, product) to de-risk dependencies and land pragmatic designs
• Establish measurable milestones on each project and reporting progress against them
• Build a culture of software engineering excellence in both the Engineering Efficiencies team and in the wider Infrastructure Engineering organization

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent rigor demonstrated through experience)
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering organizations as an individual contributor
• A strong track record leading the end‑to‑end design and development of complex software initiatives
• A deep, T‑shaped engineering foundation: you’re broadly fluent across platforms, paradigms, and tooling, while possessing real depth in at least a couple major areas
• A persistent curiosity, both technologically and organizationally
• A genuine passion for teaching and mentoring, and a track record of helping engineers level up through code reviews, architectural guidance, workshops, and well-crafted docs
• The ability to context switch gracefully and add value across multiple teams or problem spaces without losing the strategic thread
• A demonstrated knack for rapidly evaluating and adopting new technologies
• Motivation to influence engineering culture at scale—raising quality bars, shaping technical standards, and amplifying impact beyond your own code.

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.