Senior Backend Engineer, Vehicle Data Platform

General Motors

Sunnyvale (CA)

Hybrid

USD 171,000 - 261,000

Full time

11 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits
Hybrid work arrangement
Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that power our vehicle data platform. You will work across teams to build observability, ensure privacy, and support autonomy initiatives.

You will lead cross-functional design, mentor peers, and contribute to production operations while advancing observability and data-quality systems.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with production systems ownership.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
  • Proficiency in Python or another modern backend language.
  • Strong experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and relational data models.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, data ingestion, testing, debugging, and production operations.
  • Ability to communicate technical decisions and lead work across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop APIs, domain services, event-driven workflows, and vehicle-recording metadata pipelines.
  • Build services and UIs for defining collection events and triggers, selecting data, and deploying campaigns.
  • Design version-aware workflows across vehicle platforms.

Skills

Python
API design
Backend services
Event-driven architectures
Cloud knowledge
Communication across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
Google Cloud (BigQuery, Pub/Sub)
Kafka
Observability platforms
FastAPI
React/TypeScript

Job description

General Motors seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that power our vehicle data platform. You will work across teams to build observability, ensure privacy, and support autonomy initiatives.

You will lead cross-functional design, mentor peers, and contribute to production operations while advancing observability and data-quality systems.

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