Senior Security Platform Engineer - Remote

General Motors Company; Home (KS); Remote; USD 202,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Principal Security Software Engineer to define and lead cyber security strategy for highly complex programs. You will design secure software, mentor engineers, and drive secure patterns across GM's application ecosystem.

You will partner with product and platform teams, perform threat modeling, and integrate security controls into CI/CD and cloud deployments. You will engage in secure code reviews, incident readiness, and security architecture decisions at scale, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer building and owning production systems or in-house applications.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one modern programming language with strong fundamentals.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of day-to-day engineering workflows.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating services on a major cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain security-focused software components, services, and tools across GM’s application ecosystem.
• Develop automation frameworks and internal platforms to promote secure patterns (identity, authorization, secrets management, logging).
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and cloud deployments.
• Architect and implement scalable security services and APIs (authentication, authorization, policy evaluation).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security requirements into designs.
• Perform secure code reviews, threat modeling, and design reviews to remediate vulnerabilities.
• Build security telemetry systems for logging, metrics, and incident response.

Skills

Security software

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Secure coding

Threat modeling

CI/CD integration

Agile methods

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/Cybersecurity

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

General Motors seeks a Principal Security Software Engineer to define and lead cyber security strategy for highly complex programs. You will design secure software, mentor engineers, and drive secure patterns across GM's application ecosystem.

You will partner with product and platform teams, perform threat modeling, and integrate security controls into CI/CD and cloud deployments. You will engage in secure code reviews, incident readiness, and security architecture decisions at scale, with