Staff Cybersecurity Software Engineer - Authorization Services
About The Position
This staff-level individual contributor role sits within the Platform Security Engineering pillar of GM’s Security Services organization. The engineer is an application-layer security expert responsible for designing, building, and operating production-critical authorization services. They 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. The role shapes technology direction, mentors engineers, and partners with managers to deliver secure, reliable, and operable security products across the organization. It is an execution-focused role in which influence is earned through technical credibility, mentorship, and leadership by example. The role includes designing and implementing authorization frameworks, access-control systems, and policy-driven distributed authorization solutions; developing and operating cloud-native microservices and APIs; and establishing technical direction for how services are built, deployed, and operated on public cloud platforms. The engineer also leads security reviews, creates reusable engineering guidance and guardrails, defines service observability, manages data models and storage, and supports critical production systems through an on-call rotation. The role is based remotely. Candidates who live within a specified radius of a GM hub may be expected to report to that location three times a week or at another frequency directed by their manager. Relocation benefits are available to eligible candidates under company policy. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.
Requirements
- At least 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 building and maintaining role-based and attribute-based access-control systems for complex use cases.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Go, Spring Boot, 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 focused 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, as well as infrastructure automation and comparable DevOps practices.
- Experience building secure applications involving 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, and 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.
Nice To Haves
- Deep expertise in distributed application development, authorization frameworks, and policy engines.
- Expertise modeling complex permissions and relationships in graph or relationship-focused data stores.
- Demonstrated expertise building highly available and scalable custom security frameworks and tooling.
- Hands-on experience with IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, or Zanzibar.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of authorization frameworks based on industry standards and extend those frameworks as needed.
- Architect and build access-control systems using permissions, roles, and attributes to determine 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 identified issues.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices and APIs, while setting technical direction for building, deploying, and operating services on public cloud platforms.
- Write clean, testable, and secure code in one or more programming languages.
- Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, and roll these practices out across product environments.
- Define and implement service observability, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Design data models and manage data storage using relational and graph databases.
- Support critical production systems and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Shape technology direction, mentor engineers, and partner with managers to deliver secure, reliable, and easy-to-operate security products.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Sickness and accident benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- Tuition assistance programs.
- Employee assistance program.
- GM vehicle discounts.
- Incentive pay program with payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Relocation benefits for candidates who qualify under company policy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
