Hybrid Defense IT – Software Engineer

at General Motors

• Job title: Defense IT – Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Postgres, React, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Developer with expertise in system integration and cloud platforms for GM Defense. Leading engineering efforts in hybrid role based in Austin or Warren, MI.

Responsibilities

• Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends.
• Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)
• Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
• Investigate and diagnose performance issues to identify the root cause of the problems
• Develop datasets and workloads that accurately represent the Production environment
• Research and implement best practices, methodologies and tools for applications
• Explore and pitch product ideas and tech initiatives with cross functional teams
• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends and evaluate their potential for adoption
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to team growth and development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Strong proficiency with development tools like IntelliJ and Visual Source
• Strong knowledge of web application frameworks such as Angular and React, relational storage solutions based on Postgres, MS/SQL as well as no-sql solutions such as MS/GRAPH and MONGODB.
• Strong hands on experience with use of AI related IDE plug-ins such as CoPilot and SourceGraph or use of tools such as CURSOR.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like Data dog, Grafana, Dynatrace.
• Strong technical knowledge of virtualization, storage and networking infrastructures.
• Expertise knowledge in Cloud & Container Ecosystem (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

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.