Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Experience Platforms

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate cloud-connected vehicle platforms. You will own distributed systems spanning cloud, in-vehicle, and edge components to deliver reliable and scalable experiences.

You'll collaborate across product, architecture, and engineering teams in a hybrid role based in Warren, MI or Austin, TX, contributing from architecture through production support and mentoring peers to lift engineering

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 (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, build, 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 development

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Containers

CI/CD

Observability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Spring Kafka

PostgreSQL

Azure

Datadog

Jenkins

Python

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Vehicle Experience Services to design, build, and operate cloud-connected vehicle platforms. You will own distributed systems spanning cloud, in-vehicle, and edge components to deliver reliable and scalable experiences.

You'll collaborate across product, architecture, and engineering teams in a hybrid role based in Warren, MI or Austin, TX, contributing from architecture through production support and mentoring peers to lift engineering