Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Cloud

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Warren/Austin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and support platforms that connect GM vehicles to the cloud.

You will own distributed systems, drive code from architecture through production, and collaborate across product, architecture, and carrier teams to deliver reliable, secure vehicle connectivity. Hybrid work is expected with reporting to Warren, MI or Austin, TX three times per week.

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

Java

Spring Boot

Cloud-native

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Azure

Datadog

PostgreSQL

Spring Kafka

SQL

Job description

General Motors in Warren/Austin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and support platforms that connect GM vehicles to the cloud.

You will own distributed systems, drive code from architecture through production, and collaborate across product, architecture, and carrier teams to deliver reliable, secure vehicle connectivity. Hybrid work is expected with reporting to Warren, MI or Austin, TX three times per week.