Staff Software Engineer
General Motors8 days ago
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and delivery of scalable software capabilities for manufacturing teams across multiple plants.
- Translate business and operational needs into technical requirements, service boundaries, interface contracts, and delivery plans.
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production services across Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Java, and Spring Boot.
- Develop event-driven workflows and integrations with manufacturing, workforce, equipment, analytics, and enterprise systems.
- Design data models and platform solutions using relational, graph-based, caching, object-storage, and metrics technologies.
- Build secure applications with authentication, authorization, access controls, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Improve reliability through observability, health monitoring, performance engineering, automated testing, incident learning, and operational readiness.
- Lead continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure automation, containerized deployments, and GitOps-based environment promotion.
- Evolve shared platform capabilities for reuse across multiple manufacturing products and teams.
- Contribute to plant-edge monitoring and computer-vision solutions connecting cameras, machine-learning inference, cloud services, alerts, and operator workflows.
- Fine-tune and productionize machine-learning models and help establish evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and develop secure, maintainable prototypes and production solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, communicate architectural decisions, and align stakeholders across teams.
- Participate in technical planning, design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production-readiness activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial production-systems experience.
- In-depth experience with distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Strong professional experience with Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, and modern application development.
- Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot in distributed enterprise platforms.
- Experience with data modeling and databases such as PostgreSQL, including relational and graph-based technologies.
- Experience with Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and comparable DevOps practices.
- Experience building secure applications with identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access, secrets, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, source control, and production release practices.
- Experience with observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Experience integrating enterprise or industrial systems through APIs, messaging, or event streaming.
- Ability to analyze complex systems, balance competing requirements, make long-term platform decisions, and communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel periodically and work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
- Preferred experience includes platform architecture across multiple products or sites, manufacturing or industrial software, plant-edge computing, cameras, telemetry, edge-to-cloud systems, Azure services, Redis, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, AI-assisted development, LLM-enabled tools, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, machine-learning model productionization, computer vision, data federation, and technical mentorship.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week at a specified location or another frequency set by the manager.
- Required travel is less than 25%.
- Relocation assistance or relocation benefits may be available to eligible candidates.
- GM provides employee benefits and Total Rewards resources supporting well-being at work and home.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAzureDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsHelmJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisSpring BootTypeScript
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About General Motors
General Motors’ vision is to create a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, and we have committed ourselves to leading the way toward this future. Today, we are in the midst of a transportation revolution, and we have the ambition, the talent and the technology to realize the safer, better and more sustainable world we want. As an open, inclusive company, we’re also creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for who they are. One team, where all ideas are considered and heard, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential, with a culture based in respect, integrity, accountability and equality. Our team brings wide-ranging perspectives and experiences to solving the complex transportation challenges of today and tomorrow. For information on the GM Privacy Statement, please visit http://www.gm.com/privacy-statement.html