Sobre este puesto de Senior Software Engineer en General Motors
Job Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX IT Innovation Center or Warren Michigan GM Technical Center 3-4 days per week (T-W-Th)
The Role
We’re seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer in development to own overall performance of our systems and solution, leading optimization of software and systems to improve site speed, support scalability, reliability and stability. Analyzing metrics based on access to different monitoring tools and working with the respective engineer development teams and architects to design and implement solutions to improve overall site and systems performance (including but not limited to Web Sites, APIs , Database queries and definition of caching strategies) and lead execution of performance and load tests to validate results and prevent performance degradations.
You will be responsible for helping lead our engineering efforts through planning, design and architecture, execution, and ramp. As a technical leader on the team, you will be able to help mentor less experienced engineers, build strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture, applying best practices on Performance Engineering.
What You’ll Do
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
Analyze, diagnose, and resolve application performance issues in production and pre-production environments.
Design and implement performance optimization strategies for web, mobile, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
Identify performance bottlenecks across application code, databases, caching layers, networks, and infrastructure.
Implement performance testing, load testing, and capacity planning strategies.
Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams to improve system resilience and scalability.
Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
Develop datasets and workloads that accurately represent the Production environment.
Stay current with emerging technologies and trends and evaluate their potential for adoption.
Mentor junior team members and contribute to team growth and development.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
7+ years of experience of backend development experience.
Strong expertise in designing and building high-scale distributed systems.
Strong proficiency with performance tools like K6, JMeter.
Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like Data dog, Grafana, Dynatrace.
Deep understanding of virtualization, memory management and networking.
Proficiency in profiling all layers of the Technology stack (Software, OS, network) and optimizing complex applications.
Expertise knowledge in Cloud & Container Ecosystem (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes).
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
Proficient in a variety of industry-standard performance testing tools such as K6, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, and LoadRunner.
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About GM
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.
Why Join Us
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.
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