Senior Software Engineer – Connected Vehicle Cloud

General Motors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate platforms that connect GM vehicles to the cloud. You will work across cloud, network, and in-vehicle integrations, owning complex distributed systems from architecture through production support.

You will implement Java microservices, event-driven integrations, database schemas, and monitoring, collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver scalable, reliable features

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade services or platforms.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native development.
• Microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance.
• Experience working in an agile environment and collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture, security).
• Experience with Spring, Event Hub messaging, Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java microservices using Spring Boot 3.2+ and Java 17+ in a cloud-native environment.
• Implement and support event-driven integrations using Spring Kafka (producers, consumers, error handling, retries, and monitoring).
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and migrations to ensure data integrity and performance.
• Build and enhance robust monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog (dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, alerts) for owned services.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and other engineering teams in the Carrier and Vehicle Services Platform area to refine requirements and deliver features.
• Partner with operational teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including log/metric analysis and root-cause investigations along with participating in on-call rotations to support carrier and vehicle experience services.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to coding standards, and ensure best practices for quality, performance, and security.
• Contribute to and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and support guides for services.
• Act as a technical mentor and thought partner within the team, helping elevate engineering practices.
• Work within an agile, team-oriented environment, contributing to planning, estimation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop automated functional tests for components and system-level quality assurance

Skills

Cloud-native

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Kubernetes

Java 17

Spring Framework

CI/CD

Observability

Agile collaboration

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Azure

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate platforms that connect GM vehicles to the cloud. You will work across cloud, network, and in-vehicle integrations, owning complex distributed systems from architecture through production support.

You will implement Java microservices, event-driven integrations, database schemas, and monitoring, collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver scalable, reliable features