Description
At BrightDrop, we are reshaping e-commerce by developing smarter, greener, and more efficient ways to deliver goods and services to your door, while delivering a brighter future for the cities where we live. We are building an ecosystem of all-electric, zero-emissions delivery solutions – from electric vehicles, to ePallets and software that leverages real-time data to drive intelligent optimizations for e-commerce. To deliver on our mission we are growing fast and building a team, based in Palo Alto, with offices in Atlanta and Detroit, that is customer-focused, agile and passionate about innovating for a more sustainable future.
From engineering to product management and operations, BrightDrop is looking for people who can combine a passion for technology and sustainability with high doses of curiosity and rigorous thinking to deliver a better future.
Backed by General Motors, BrightDrop is striving to improve the communities where we live and deliver a better future for generations to come. We hope you’ll join us.
In this Senior Engineering Manager role, you will lead and grow a strong team of DevOps and SRE engineers, act as the enabler and connector for customers internally and externally, and ensure the reliability, scalability and availability of our platform infrastructure and systems for BrightDrop’s new electrified last-mile delivery ecosystem. This role provides a unique opportunity where you will be enabling all of the BrightDrop software products, and truly steering the future of BrightDrop’s DevOps and SRE practices, CI/CD, automation, cloud platform, and infrastructure-as-code practices. We are an innovation first team, and we need your help to ensure we meet the highest standards. Come join us and let’s innovate!
What you get to do in this role:
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Recruit, hire, scale, and develop an amazing team of DevOps and SRE engineers
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Provide guidance to the engineering team on architectural directions that will provide highly available, performant, and scalable infrastructure for our enterprise customers
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Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability and simplicity
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Lead engineering team on high quality and timely execution and delivery of software services
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Collaborate across various engineering teams, product, and other cross-functional stakeholders to effectively deliver the best solution to internal and external customers
Additional Description
Qualifications:
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3+ years of experience in managing DevOps and SRE engineers
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7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles, with a focus on cloud-based infrastructure (AWS Azure or GCP only) and automation
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Extensive experience building CI/CD pipelines
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Experience with cloud security
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Experience with managing enterprise level cloud infrastructure budgets
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Experience scaling native cloud infrastructure at an enterprise level
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Experience hiring top talent, building diverse and inclusive teams, foster a culture of healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging
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A genuine enjoyment of learning about how things work, with the ability to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions
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Ability to work well cross-functionally, and navigate through ambiguity
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Ability to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs
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Extreme customer focus, committed to investing in partnerships with
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BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering preferred
The expected base compensation for this role is: ($217,440 - $321,150 USD Annual). Actual base compensation within the identified 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.
About GM
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.
Why Join Us
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Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statements
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