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This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren Global Technical Center or Austin Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days].\nThe Role\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Staff Privacy by Design engineer to build and operate modern, cloud-native enterprise applications that support critical Data Privacy initiatives. This is a purely individual-contributor role focused on delivering reliable features and services within the team’s roadmap and established technical direction.\nStrong software engineering is the primary qualification. Data Privacy knowledge is useful, but prior privacy experience is not required. You will work with product managers, Legal, privacy partners, architects, and engineers to understand requirements and implement secure, maintainable solutions.\nYou will own the implementation and operational readiness of your assigned work, contribute to design decisions for the components you build, and collaborate with the team when changes cross service or system boundaries. This role does not include people-management responsibilities or ownership of team-wide architecture or technical strategy.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot on Microsoft Azure.\nDeliver assigned features and services from requirements clarification and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and production support.\nImplement solutions within established architecture, patterns, and team standards; contribute to component-level designs and raise technical tradeoffs or concerns.\nWork with product, Legal, privacy partners, and teammates to translate Data Privacy and business requirements into clear implementation tasks.\nBuild secure, reliable services using Azure capabilities, container-based workloads, and cloud-native patterns.\nApply event-driven architecture and messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.\nWork with relational and NoSQL databases, selecting suitable data patterns for the feature or service.\nWrite and maintain automated tests, participate in code reviews, and document relevant implementation and operational details.\nUse CI/CD pipelines, automation, Git-based workflows, and DevOps practices to support reliable delivery.\nUse logging, metrics, and tracing to monitor the components you own, investigate issues, and identify practical improvements.\nApply applicable data-handling, access, retention, and protection requirements in collaboration with the relevant partners.\nUse AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully while maintaining code quality, security, and engineering judgment.\nCommunicate progress, dependencies, and risks; coordinate with teammates to resolve issues and deliver committed work.\nIdentify and suggest improvements to the code, tooling, and practices used by the team.\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\n5+ years of professional software development experience building production-grade applications.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent demonstrable professional software engineering experience.\nStrong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, including microservices-based architectures.\nProven experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs.\nPractical experience with Microsoft Azure, preferably including container-based workloads.\nExperience with event-driven architectures, messaging, and streaming platforms such as Kafka, Event Hubs, or similar.\nExperience with Kubernetes (AKS) or similar for container orchestration, deployment, and scaling.\nWorking knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, or Cassandra.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Git-based workflows.\nUnderstanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, resiliency, and scalability patterns.\nExperience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.\nHands-on experience with observability tooling, including logging, metrics, and tracing.\nDemonstrated ability to independently deliver assigned software work, collaborate effectively, and raise risks or dependencies early.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias toward action, ownership, and pragmatic delivery.\nAbility to communicate technical information clearly with engineering teammates and cross-functional partners.\nWhat Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)\nData Privacy background or experience is helpful, but not required.\nExperience designing or operating highly available production systems.\nPractical experience with security best practices, including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, and secrets management.\nExperience modernizing legacy or monolithic applications into microservices and cloud-native architectures.\nExperience collaborating with Legal, product, security, privacy, or other cross-functional partners.\nThis job may be eligible for relocation benefits.\nCompensation: \nThe expected base compensation for this role is: $133,000 - $188,600. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. \nBonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. \nBenefits: 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. \nGM 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., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)\n\nAbout GM\nOur 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.\nWhy Join Us\nWe 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.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom 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.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral 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.\nAll 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.\nWe 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.\nAccommodations\nGeneral 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. 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