Engineering Manager, Observability

Engineering Manager

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford, Mountain View, or Sunnyvale, you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others have world-class tools and a seamless development experience so that they can focus on the problems that matter most in their domain.

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a deep technical background, experience building and running engineering teams, and who is passionate about developer productivity. As a leader on this team, we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of engineers on and off the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. This leader will start delivering impact through observability frameworks and will evolve depending on business needs, but they will be expected to identify high ROI investments with minimal guidance.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

• Team leadership : Manage and grow a team of engineers, conducting performance reviews, providing coaching, and supporting career development.
• Technical strategy : Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the observability platform, ensuring it provides actionable insights into complex systems.
• Architectural oversight : Provide technical guidance on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing to ensure comprehensive visibility across GM's AV software stack.
• Incident response : Ensure the team's tools enable rapid detection, debugging, and resolution of unknown or unforeseen system failures to minimize downtime.
• Cross-functional collaboration : Work with other engineering teamssuch as those developing AI / ML, firmware, and infrastructureto implement observability practices and improve system reliability.
• Platform development : Lead the development of internal tools and data pipelines to collect, analyze, and visualize telemetry data at a massive scale.
• Vendor management : Manage relationships and costs associated with third-party observability software and platforms.

Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

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 $200,000 to $285,000. 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. Company Vehicle : Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note : program participants are required to purchase / lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

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