- Location
- GM Global Technical Center - Cole Engineering Center Tower, United States of America · Austin, Texas, United States of America
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI, or Austin, TX three times per week.
This role is ideal for an engineer who is comfortable owning complex distributed systems, collaborating with internal and external partners, and driving hands-on implementation from architecture through production support.
What you'll do:
- Design, develop, and maintain Java microservices using Spring Boot 3.2+ and Java 17+ in a cloud-native environment.
- Implement and support event-driven integrations using Spring Kafka (producers, consumers, error handling, retries, and monitoring).
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and migrations to ensure data integrity and performance.
- Build and enhance robust monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog (dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, alerts) for owned services.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and other engineering teams in the Carrier and Vehicle Services Platform area to refine requirements and deliver features.
- Partner with operational teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including log/metric analysis and root-cause investigations along with participating in on-call rotations to support carrier and vehicle experience services.
- Participate in code reviews, contribute to coding standards, and ensure best practices for quality, performance, and security.
- Contribute to and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and support guides for services.
- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner within the team, helping elevate engineering practices.
- Work within an agile, team-oriented environment, contributing to planning, estimation, and continuous improvement.
- Develop automated functional tests for components and system-level quality assurance
Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade services or platforms.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native development
- Microservices and REST/gRPC APIs
- Containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
- CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance
- Experience working in an agile environment and collaborating in cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture, security).
- Experience with Spring, Event Hub messaging, Azure
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Microservice Development, Springboot 3.2+, Java 17+, Spring Kafka, PostgreSQL, Azure and Datadog
- Experience with Python, pyTest Automation framework, Robot/Autobot framework, Jenkins, Appium, or other automation frameworks
Additional Information:
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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