Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness Job at General Motors (Austin)

Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness

General Motors

Location:
United States , Austin

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

201600.00 - 360000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

General Motors is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness. This role is focused on solving some of the most difficult and high-leverage engineering problems across the software development process. The person in this role will identify areas where human workflows, compute workflows, and engineering systems are operating far below their potential, then design and implement technical solutions that materially improve speed, cost, correctness, and usability.

Job Responsibility:

Identify and solve high-complexity engineering problems with the potential for outsized improvements in speed, efficiency, cost, or developer effectiveness
Build and apply technical solutions that optimize compute-heavy and workflow-heavy parts of the software-development process
Analyze systems and behavioral patterns across teams and codebases to find root causes of waste, friction, duplication, or poor performance
Implement scalable improvements that can be applied broadly rather than solving the same problem repeatedly in isolated ways
Partner with teams to improve both technical systems and the engineering practices that surround them
Teach and enable engineers so that better patterns are understood, adopted, and sustained over time

Requirements:

10+ years of professional software engineering experience
Demonstrated ability to solve unusually difficult technical problems with limited oversight and high ambiguity
Strong track record of delivering high-leverage technical improvements across software, automation, platforms, or engineering workflows
Excellent systems thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to find non-obvious sources of inefficiency and address root causes at scale
Deep hands-on engineering capability, including the ability to move from investigation to implementation in complex environments
Passion for correctness, usability, efficiency, and creating systems that make good engineering outcomes easier to achieve

Nice to have:

Experience optimizing large-scale build, test, CI/CD, release, or other compute-intensive engineering workflows
Experience identifying broad technical patterns across a large codebase and translating those findings into durable improvements
Experience designing or building internal platforms, workflow tooling, dashboards, or self-service engineering systems
Experience improving adoption of better engineering practices across multiple teams through technical leadership and education
Strong instincts for finding high-leverage opportunities where a different technical approach can unlock disproportionate gains

What we offer:

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
incentive pay program

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 23, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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