• Serve as a technical leader within your team and across the broader engineering organization • Drive high-impact initiatives that shape the future of our systems, architecture, and AI-first platform strategy • Collaborate closely with product, design, and AI teams to launch features that leverage the latest advances in AI • Champion engineering excellence and innovation across the org

- Own the design, structure, and optimization of all PostgreSQL databases across the platform. - Implement indexing, partitioning, caching, and query optimization strategies to improve performance and reliability. - Work cross-functionally to architect and evolve data models that support new features while maintaining efficiency and data integrity. - Collaborate with the backend engineering team to ensure backend services integrate seamlessly with database systems. - Monitor and tune database performance using metrics and profiling tools. - Develop, test, and release backend code that meets Applause’s high engineering standards, delivering 90%+ on-time releases. - Establish and document conventions and best practices for working with data and backend services. - Lead backend initiatives from concept to release—providing technical direction, mentorship, and quality oversight.

• Write high-quality code for complex scenarios with good test coverage. • Review and translate product requirements into robust designs to ensure high-quality distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, reusable, fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable. • Lead design and code reviews of multiple applications to ensure best practices, adherence to Mercury standards, and high quality. • Lead the sprint team to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments to delivering high-quality solutions in the sprint backlog. • Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of intended functionality. • Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within Mercury engineering.

Description 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. About Us The AI Cloud and Developer Infrastructure organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the tools and services engineers here at GM use every day to do their best work and drive our cars forward. Tools and services we work on enhancing the entire development process of engineers at GM - how/where code is checked out, modified, compiled, tested, merged, and eventually deployed. Our goal is to ensure our AV engineers and others here 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 a Principal Engineer with an extensive engineering background, experience using a variety of developer tools and technologies, 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 other engineers on the team and can effectively balance the needs and priorities of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers. This engineer 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) - Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems. - Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability. - Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively. - Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors - Influence the team's technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision - Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization, and create tooling which encourages these - Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt - Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have) - 7+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers - Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience - Experience driving consensus on a multi-functional effort using influence without authority - Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems - Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes) - Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, NodeJS or equivalent - Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals - Effective collaboration skills and experience researching, documenting, communicating, and defending proposals and taking and giving critical feedback - Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have) - Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure - Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, TSDBs and observability pipelines (e.g. either for logging or metrics or tracing) - Skilled in defining and instrumenting SLIs and SLOs - Own or contribute to Open Source projects - Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world 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 $280,000 to $385,000. 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. 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