Principal Software Engineer

General Motors

full-time

Posted on: 8/28/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $259,000 - $369,700 per year

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About the role

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction across engineering pillars supporting Vehicle Retail Experiences.
Define and evolve overarching technical vision and architecture across multiple product pillars.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, cloud-native architecture patterns, and CI/CD, observability, and automation.
Guide use of Java, Quarkus, React, TypeScript, and modern AI/ML technologies.
Provide architectural guidance, design/code reviews, and mentor engineering talent across multiple teams.
Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical strategies with business outcomes.
Lead modernization initiatives including legacy migrations and containerized/cloud-native adoption.
Foster collaboration across globally distributed engineering organizations.

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a principal, staff, or architect-level role.
Deep expertise in Java, Quarkus, React, and TypeScript, with strong breadth across backend, frontend, cloud, AI/ML, and DevOps.
Proven success designing and scaling distributed, cloud-native systems.
Strong understanding of security, observability, performance, and high-availability architectures.
Demonstrated ability to influence at the organizational level.
Experience guiding multiple product areas or platforms within a large-scale, multi-pillar environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
(Preferred) Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
(Preferred) Experience launching AI-driven features or platforms and integrating LLMs; familiarity with AI bias detection, content filtering, and governance.
Note: GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.