Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Austin, TX, United States

Job Description

The Role:

The Digital Product Engineering team is a dynamic and fast paced organization that designs, develops, and maintains all applications and solutions that create the entire interactive experience for customers and vehicles at General Motors. We are developing a world-class GM experience for our customers and driving real change in the most iconic automaker on the planet. Our team delivers unique software solutions in cutting-edge technologies such as mobility, telematics, mission-critical business systems, supercomputing, cloud, vehicle engineering and real-time computing. We offer challenging positions for passionate professionals looking to advance their careers and be a part of an organization focused on innovation, speed, and business value.

The Cloud Platform Engineering and Services Team is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead and work with engineering teams across the Digital Product Engineering space to build and manage a cloud-based shared platform. The Digital Product Engineering systems include many customer-facing and back-office services required to deliver subscription-based and eCommerce services with this role focused on building a platform for supporting these experiences in a multi-cloud ecosystem. Additionally, this team works closely with the Engineering, Architecture and SRE teams to develop and standardize new patterns, libraries and services that are needed as part of GM’s digital product transformation.

What You'll Do:

The ideal candidate has experience in leading and solving complex software engineering problems. These experiences should include both significant breadth and depth of supporting multiple technical workstreams.

The Digital Product Engineering team is a dynamic and fast paced organization that designs, develops, and maintains all applications and solutions that create the entire interactive experience for customers and vehicles at General Motors. We are developing a world-class GM experience for our customers and driving real change in the most iconic automaker on the planet. Our team delivers unique software solutions in cutting-edge technologies such as mobility, telematics, mission-critical business systems, supercomputing, cloud, vehicle engineering and real-time computing. We offer challenging positions for passionate professionals looking to advance their careers and be a part of an organization focused on innovation, speed, and business value.

What You'll Do:

The ideal candidate has experience in leading and solving complex software engineering problems. These experiences should include both significant breadth and depth of supporting multiple technical workstreams.

Defines and leads corporate software strategy for new technology, highly complex features, or significant enhancements for current, new, or major programs.

Provide, technical leadership to execution teams for development and integration.

Leads comprehensive design analysis of design solution

Lead integration and verification testing f an integrated software build

Stays abreast of new technology and competitive products and defines GM direction.

Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

5+ years of software engineering and design experience in building and operating a public cloud platform supporting a global customer software and services offering

Knowledge of operating system, networking and systems engineering management

Experience with Container Orchestration (Kubernetes preferred) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)

Advanced programming language proficiency in Java, Python or Go

Expertise in end-to-end applications hosted on Kubernetes with a focus on scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance including the engineering of Operators and CRDs

Experience in designing and engineering highly-available public cloud services (Azure, GCP and AWS)

Experience with open-source, cloud-native products supporting complex applications and services (ex- Service Mesh, Service Discovery, Routing, Logging Infrastructure, CI/CD tools, etc.)

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions

Creative problem-solving skills that deliver elegant solutions to complex issues

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin, Mountain View, Atlanta, or Warren three times per week, at minimum.

Compensation:

The expected base compensation for this role is: $104,000- $232,900. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

You also need to include general information about potential commissions, if applicable.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;

• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;

• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;

• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;

• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

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