Staff Data Engineer — Privacy by Design Specialist

General Motors Company; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GM vehicle program

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors Company is seeking a Privacy by Design Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native enterprise apps powering data privacy initiatives. This hands-on, architect-friendly engineer focuses on Java/Spring Boot, Azure, and scalable microservices within a hybrid work model at Warren and Austin centers.

You’ll lead architecture discussions, drive complex technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, performant services in an Agile setup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale systems in a global enterprise.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to coach engineers and lead technical discussions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices.
• Champion change and drive adoption of tools and patterns.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, including container workloads.
• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and Git workflows.
• Understanding cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, resiliency, scalability.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of services from requirements through deployment and support.
• Design, develop, and evolve scalable microservices and RESTful APIs on Azure.
• Make architecture decisions balancing business, security, and reliability.
• Build secure, resilient services using Azure and containerized workloads.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and milestones.
• Drive engineering work across teams and manage dependencies.
• Apply event-driven architectures using Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to improve deployment quality.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases with appropriate patterns.
• Establish observability with logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Mentor engineers and lead design discussions without people management.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering practices and tooling.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

Azure Cloud

RESTful APIs

Kubernetes (AKS)

CI/CD & DevOps

SQL & NoSQL Databases

Agile/Scrum

Observability Tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Eng

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

General Motors Company is seeking a Privacy by Design Engineer to design, build, and evolve cloud-native enterprise apps powering data privacy initiatives. This hands-on, architect-friendly engineer focuses on Java/Spring Boot, Azure, and scalable microservices within a hybrid work model at Warren and Austin centers.

You’ll lead architecture discussions, drive complex technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, performant services in an Agile setup.