Senior Manager, High-Performance Networking Systems

Job Description

The Role:

We are hiring an opinionated leader to own the high-performance networking systems for AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) at GM. ACI is the core engineering organization responsible for building and maintaining the unified, secure hybrid platform that enables all autonomous software hosting, validation, and testing. You will lead the team responsible for the physical and virtual "pipes" that power our autonomous and robotic future, managing a high-throughput, low-latency hybrid network fabric across on-prem data centers and global cloud environments. We need a leader who takes deep ownership of Tier-0 connectivity and designs for scale, failure, and recovery as first-class concerns.

What You’ll Do

• End-to-End Architecture: Own the design, implementation, and operation of the hybrid network fabric, ensuring secure physical peering and seamless traffic engineering between on-prem and multi-cloud environments.
• Ingest Capacity: Manage the full lifecycle of data-to-cloud ingest systems, ensuring 100% capacity for the Super Cruise data flywheel.
• Network Integration: Execute the high-stakes integration of legacy networks, specifically merging DNS and VPN environments to eliminate friction for developers.
• NetDevOps Leadership: Establish and enforce SLOs for networking services while reducing operational risk through automated configuration management and "golden paths."
  
  
  

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Required: Deep experience with high-performance physical networking, including dark fiber, BGP, and Leaf-Spine architectures.
• Required: Experience managing multi-cloud interconnects (GCP/Azure) and large-scale VPN/DNS migrations.
• Required: Strong opinion on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) for network configuration management.
• Required: Proven leadership experience at the Senior Manager or Principal-level scope.
  
  

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What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Background in managing network security remediations and zero-trust initiatives in a hybrid environment.
  
  
  

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 $160,000 to $240,000. 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.
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  

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Hybrid: This role is based hybrid from Sunnyvale you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

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