Senior Privacy-by-Design Data Engineer (Azure)

General Motors Company; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Privacy by Design Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native enterprise applications supporting Data Privacy initiatives. This hands-on, individual-contributor role focuses on architecture, scalable microservices, secure APIs, and Azure-based deployments in a fast-paced Agile environment.

You will partner with Legal, product teams, and architects to deliver outcomes, while guiding engineering decisions and improving quality across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in production-grade apps.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available systems.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to coach and mentor engineers through technical guidance.
• Strong collaboration and communication across teams and stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native patterns.
• Proven experience with RESTful APIs and cloud platforms (Azure).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of services and initiatives.
• Design, develop, and evolve scalable microservices and RESTful APIs on Azure.
• Communicate architecture decisions balancing business needs and security.
• Build secure, resilient services using Azure, containers, and cloud-native patterns.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and incremental delivery milestones.
• Drive engineering work across teams and resolve technical dependencies.
• Apply event-driven patterns and messaging platforms like Kafka or Event Hubs.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to improve deployment quality.
• Apply relational and NoSQL databases and data patterns for use cases.
• Establish observability with logging, metrics, and tracing; guide improvements.
• Lead design discussions, architecture forums, and code reviews; mentor others.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering practices and tooling.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Microsoft Azure

Kubernetes (AKS)

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Privacy by Design Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native enterprise applications supporting Data Privacy initiatives. This hands-on, individual-contributor role focuses on architecture, scalable microservices, secure APIs, and Azure-based deployments in a fast-paced Agile environment.

You will partner with Legal, product teams, and architects to deliver outcomes, while guiding engineering decisions and improving quality across teams.