Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Experience (Hybrid)

General Motors Company; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate cloud-connected platforms that link GM vehicles with the cloud. You will work across cloud, network, and in‑vehicle integrations to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable connected experiences.

This role requires owning distributed systems, collaborating with internal and external partners, and hands‑on implementation from architecture through production support.

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

Kubernetes

Docker

Spring Kafka

PostgreSQL

Azure

Datadog

CI/CD

REST API

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Python

Robot Framework

PyTest

Appium

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate cloud-connected platforms that link GM vehicles with the cloud. You will work across cloud, network, and in‑vehicle integrations to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable connected experiences.

This role requires owning distributed systems, collaborating with internal and external partners, and hands‑on implementation from architecture through production support.