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General Motors

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Austin, TX

Description

The Role:

The Digital Product Engineering team is a dynamic and fast paced organization that designs, develops, and maintains all applications and solutions that create the entire interactive experience for customers and vehicles at General Motors. We are developing a world-class GM experience for our customers and driving real change in the most iconic automaker on the planet. Our team delivers unique software solutions in cutting-edge technologies such as mobility, telematics, mission-critical business systems, supercomputing, cloud, vehicle engineering and real-time computing. We offer challenging positions for passionate professionals looking to advance their careers and be a part of an organization focused on innovation, speed, and business value.

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The Cloud Platform Engineering and Services Team is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead and work with engineering teams across the Digital Product Engineering space to build and manage a cloud-based shared platform. The Digital Product Engineering systems include many customer-facing and back-office services required to deliver subscription-based and eCommerce services with this role focused on building a platform for supporting these experiences in a multi-cloud ecosystem. Additionally, this team works closely with the Engineering, Architecture and SRE teams to develop and standardize new patterns, libraries and services that are needed as part of GM's digital product transformation.

What You'll Do:

The ideal candidate has experience in leading and solving complex software engineering problems. These experiences should include both significant breadth and depth of supporting multiple technical workstreams.

The Digital Product Engineering team is a dynamic and fast paced organization that designs, develops, and maintains all applications and solutions that create the entire interactive experience for customers and vehicles at General Motors. We are developing a world-class GM experience for our customers and driving real change in the most iconic automaker on the planet. Our team delivers unique software solutions in cutting-edge technologies such as mobility, telematics, mission-critical business systems, supercomputing, cloud, vehicle engineering and real-time computing. We offer challenging positions for passionate professionals looking to advance their careers and be a part of an organization focused on innovation, speed, and business value.

What You'll Do:

The ideal candidate has experience in leading and solving complex software engineering problems. These experiences should include both significant breadth and depth of supporting multiple technical workstreams.

- Defines and leads corporate software strategy for new technology, highly complex features, or significant enhancements for current, new, or major programs.
- Provide, technical leadership to execution teams for development and integration.
- Leads comprehensive design analysis of design solution
- Lead integration and verification testing f an integrated software build
- Stays abreast of new technology and competitive products and defines GM direction.
- Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community
Performs other related duties as assigned.

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

  • 5+ years of software engineering and design experience in building and operating a public cloud platform supporting a global customer software and services offering
  • Knowledge of operating system, networking and systems engineering management
  • Experience with Container Orchestration (Kubernetes preferred) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
  • Advanced programming language proficiency in Java, Python or Go
  • Expertise in end-to-end applications hosted on Kubernetes with a focus on scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance including the engineering of Operators and CRDs


  • Experience in designing and engineering highly-available public cloud services (Azure, GCP and AWS)
  • Experience with open-source, cloud-native products supporting complex applications and services (ex- Service Mesh, Service Discovery, Routing, Logging Infrastructure, CI/CD tools, etc.)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skillsand ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
  • Creativeproblem-solvingskillsthat deliver elegant solutions to complex issues
  • Bachelor's degree in computer scienceor related field, or equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience

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

  • Compensation:

    • The expected base compensation for this role is: $104,000- $232,900. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
    • You also need to include general information about potential commissions, if applicable.
    • 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

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful 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 encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (U.S.)

General Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Accommodations (U.S. and Canada)

General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Warren, MI, USA
Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202408011
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Stock Purchase Program
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Woman founded/led
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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