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About the Role

This role is a staff level individual contributor within the Platform Security Engineering pillar of GM’s broader Security Services organization. You will serve as a staff software engineer and application-layer security expert responsible for designing, building, and operating production-critical authorization services. You will lead delivery of strategic authorization capabilities, raise engineering standards for authentication and authorization, and help define how users and systems sign in and what they are permitted to do. You will shape technology direction, mentor engineers, and partner with managers to deliver secure, reliable, and easy-to-operate security products across the organization. This is an execution-focused role requiring deep expertise, in which influence is earned through technical credibility, mentorship, and leadership by example.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of authorization frameworks following industry standards and then extending them.
Architect and build access control systems that use permissions, roles, and attributes to decide who can perform specific actions.
Define and implement policy-driven and distributed authorization solutions.
Lead security and authorization reviews across services and drive remediation of issues.
Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices and APIs while setting the technical direction for how services are built, deployed, and operated on public cloud platforms
Write clean, testable, and secure code in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, and roll out these practices across product environments.
Define and implement observability for services, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
Design data models and manage data storage using relational and graph databases.
Support critical production systems and be on call rotation.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on application development experience, including authentication, authorization, or access control.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent expertise.
Deep expertise in building and maintaining role-based and attribute-based access control systems for complex use cases.
Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Go, Springboot, Python and 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 skills with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead design discussions.
Experience with modern cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s), along with 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 Azure services such as managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services.
Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable technologies, source control, and production release practices.
Experience with observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and operational dashboards.

Skills

Go
Java
Python
JavaScript
Springboot
Helm
GitOps
Argo CD
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes (K8s)
GitHub Actions
IAM
OAuth
OIDC
SpiceDB
Zanzibar

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff
8+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent expertise.

Salary/Compensations

$160,200-$246,300

Benefits

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

About the Company

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.
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. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

Equal Opportunity

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.