Staff Platform Security Engineer - Authorization Leader

General Motors; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors seeks a staff software engineer to design, build, and operate production-critical authorization services within the Platform Security Engineering pillar of GM's Security Services organization. You will lead strategic authorization capabilities, shape technology direction, mentor engineers, and partner with managers to deliver secure and reliable security products.

This execution-focused role demands deep technical credibility, mentorship, and leadership by example, with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on application development including authentication/authorization.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, SE, or related field or equivalent expertise.
• Deep expertise in building role-based and attribute-based access control systems for complex use cases.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Springboot, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, or comparable deployment automation.
• Experience applying AI-assisted software engineering across design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Advanced problem-solving with focus on security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Clear written and verbal communication, ability to lead design discussions.
• Experience with Azure, Docker, Kubernetes and modern cloud/container technologies.
• Experience building secure apps with identity, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience with Azure services like managed databases, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, source control, and production releases.
• Experience with observability: structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of authorization frameworks and extend them.
• Architect and build access control systems using permissions, roles, and attributes.
• Define and implement policy-driven and distributed authorization solutions.
• Lead security and authorization reviews across services and drive remediation.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices and APIs on public clouds.
• Write clean, secure code in Go, Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Publish technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails across environments.
• Define observability for services: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts.
• Design data models and manage data storage using relational and graph databases.
• Support production systems and be on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Springboot

Python

JavaScript

IAM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Helm

GitOps

Argo CD

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Motors seeks a staff software engineer to design, build, and operate production-critical authorization services within the Platform Security Engineering pillar of GM's Security Services organization. You will lead strategic authorization capabilities, shape technology direction, mentor engineers, and partner with managers to deliver secure and reliable security products.

This execution-focused role demands deep technical credibility, mentorship, and leadership by example, with