Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Engineering Efficiencies

Job Description

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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin, TX or Mountain View, CA three times per week, at minimum .

The Role

The Engineering Efficiencies team is a hands-on group of software engineers within the Infrastructure Engineering organization. The team's core mandate is to:

• Provide flexible engineering capacity to the Infrastructure Engineering organization.

• Provide a growth path for early - career engineers to develop into expanded roles across GM.

As the Senior Manager, you will grow and lead this team to accelerate key engineering initiatives through modern software pr actices, au tomation, and pragmatic system design. You'll allocate capacity to high-impact projects, mentor early-career engineers, and create a learning culture that consistently produces strong senior-level talent for GM's broader engineering needs. The team also includes a small cadre of experienced Staff Engineers who act as technical leaders and mentors, partnering with you on architecture, planning, and delivery of key efforts.

At GM, we value leaders who are technically fluent, able to guide their teams through complex challenges, and passionate about mentoring engineers to grow into their best selves. Our managers create clarity, remove roadblocks, and advocate for their teams' long-term success.

What You'll Do:

• Grow and lead a high-performing, hands-on software engineering team that supplements Infrastructure Engineering with flexible delivery capacity.

• Partner across Infrastructure Engineering to align on roadmaps, pain points, and opportunities, then provide burst engineering capacity that unblocks delivery and ensures teams meet commitments.

• Establish a rigorous intake, scoping, and prioritization process to match engineering capacity with the highest-impact work.

• Drive modern engineering and automation practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, IaC , etc. ) that improve delivery speed, reliability, and maintainability.

• Set clear goals, operating rhythms, and success metrics (e.g., time-to-deliver, backlog burn-down, reliability SLIs/SLOs) to demonstrate impact and predictability.

• Coach and develop early-career engineers through structured mentorship, targeted project rotations, and transparent progression frameworks that prepare them for senior roles across GM.

• Ensure strong technical execution: code reviews, design reviews, iterative delivery, and pragmatic system design aligned to reliability, security, and cost constraints.

• Build durable partnerships with Infrastructure Engineering teams to deliver cohesive solutions and reduce operational risk.

• Communicate outcomes clearly to stakeholders, translating technical progress into business impact and actionable next steps.

Additional Job Description

Y our Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering organizations as an individual contributor.

• Several years of experience leading hands-on software engineering teams that deliver platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity solutions.

• A track record of allocating teams to the highest-value work, managing an intake pipeline, and delivering predictable outcomes in fast-moving environments.

• Strong coaching skills and a passion for developing early-career engineers through mentorship, feedback, and well-defined growth paths.

• Practical expertise with modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, observability/monitoring, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native development.

• Ability to balance speed and rigor , knowing when to build scalable systems and when to ship pragmatic solutions that unblock delivery.

• Excellent stakeholder management: you listen first, align on outcomes, and communicate progress and risks clearly.

• Comfort operating across ambiguity, quickly scoping problems, and creating structure that drives momentum.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Extensive experience in engineering staff augmentation as both a hands-on individual contributor and a leader with proven ability to scope, mobilize, and deliver engineering initiatives end-to-end.

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 $ 219,000 to $396,700 . 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:

• 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.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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