Senior Platform Engineer, Vehicle Data & Observability

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 171,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

HSA

FSA

Retirement plan

Sickness and accident benefits

Life insurance

Paid vacation

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to scale and operate data-collection platforms powering autonomous and AI-enabled vehicle programs. You will design APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven workflows that move vehicle data from edge to cloud, while ensuring quality, privacy, and observability across GM fleets.

You will collaborate with AI research, data engineering, and vehicle teams to deliver reliable services and intuitive tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python or another modern backend programming 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs, domain services, event-driven workflows, and vehicle-recording metadata pipelines.
• Build services and user experiences for defining collection events and triggers, selecting data, generating and validating configurations, deploying campaigns, and monitoring results.
• Design version-aware workflows that reconcile signals, schemas, hardware capabilities, and software compatibility across vehicle platforms.
• Improve visibility into campaign health, fleet coverage, recording volume, ingestion latency, and data quality.
• Lead technical design and deliver cross-team initiatives involving vehicle recording, fleet management, data platforms, autonomy, privacy, product, and program teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, automated testing, code reviews, technical mentorship, and production support.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Python

API design

Event-driven

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Google Cloud (BigQuery, Pub/Sub)

Kafka

Observability platforms

Data-quality systems

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to scale and operate data-collection platforms powering autonomous and AI-enabled vehicle programs. You will design APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven workflows that move vehicle data from edge to cloud, while ensuring quality, privacy, and observability across GM fleets.

You will collaborate with AI research, data engineering, and vehicle teams to deliver reliable services and intuitive tools.