Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness

Description
The Role:
General Motors is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness .
This role is focused on improving the software development experience across teams by identifying high-impact friction in the way engineers work and building practical solutions that make the right path the easy path. The person in this role will look across tools, workflows, automation, data visibility, and developer usability to find opportunities to simplify, connect, and improve the overall engineering experience.
The ideal candidate is highly autonomous, deeply hands-on, and motivated by solving structural problems rather than only treating symptoms. They should be comfortable entering ambiguous situations, understanding how teams work, and delivering solutions that improve correctness, usability, and long-term team effectiveness. This role will drive change through hands-on implementation, technical leadership, and collaboration with partner teams.
What You'll Do:

• Identify high-value opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness across tools, workflows, and developer experience

• Build practical software solutions that simplify, unify, automate, and optimize software-development workflows

• Partner closely with teams to understand pain points and root causes, then implement durable improvements

• Improve the usability, correctness, and discoverability of engineering systems, dashboards, and self-service tools

• Teach and enable partner teams so that improvements remain sustainable after the initial work is complete

• Work with a high degree of independence, owning technical execution end to end with limited oversight

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Demonstrated ability to independently identify important technical problems and deliver effective solutions with limited oversight

• Strong track record of building software, automation, platforms, or internal tools that improve developer productivity or engineering workflows

• Excellent systems thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to distinguish root causes from surface-level symptoms

• Experience working across team boundaries and influencing outcomes without relying on organizational authority

• Passion for correctness, usability, and creating a "pit of success" where the easiest path is also the right one

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in developer productivity, developer experience, platform engineering, or software engineering effectiveness

• Experience improving CI/CD, source control workflows, build systems, testing workflows, release processes, or engineering automation

• Experience designing or building dashboards, developer portals, workflow tooling, or self-service internal platforms

• Experience improving adoption and effectiveness of shared tools and processes across multiple teams

• Strong coaching and mentoring instincts, especially in helping teams build the skills needed to sustain progress independently

This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
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