Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Job Description

The Role:

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.

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.

- 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

Work Arrangement:
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. 

  • 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.