Senior Vehicle Experience Cloud Software Engineer

General Motors; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in a hybrid role based in Warren, MI or Austin, TX, to design and build cloud-native vehicle-experience services. You’ll own distributed systems, collaborate across teams, and drive implementation from architecture through production support.

You’ll design Java microservices with Spring Boot 3.2+ and Kafka, optimize PostgreSQL schemas, and implement robust monitoring with Datadog, while participating in on-call rotations and agile planning.

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 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 in a cloud-native environment.
• Implement and support event-driven integrations using Spring Kafka.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and migrations.
• Build and enhance monitoring and alerting with Datadog for owned services.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and other teams to refine requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to standards for quality, performance, and security.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and support guides.
• Act as a mentor and contribute to engineering practices.
• Work in an agile team, contributing to planning and continuous improvement.
• Develop automated functional tests for components and system-level QA.

Skills

Cloud-native development

Microservices architecture

Java & Spring Boot

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & monitoring

Agile team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Spring Boot 3.2+

Spring Kafka

PostgreSQL

Azure

Datadog

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in a hybrid role based in Warren, MI or Austin, TX, to design and build cloud-native vehicle-experience services. You’ll own distributed systems, collaborate across teams, and drive implementation from architecture through production support.

You’ll design Java microservices with Spring Boot 3.2+ and Kafka, optimize PostgreSQL schemas, and implement robust monitoring with Datadog, while participating in on-call rotations and agile planning.