Staff Cybersecurity Software Engineer - Authorization Services

General Motors is looking for a Staff cybersecurity software engineer to help design, build, and run production-critical authorization services. This is a staff-level individual contributor role focused on authorization strategy, secure engineering standards, and reliable delivery of security products across distributed cloud environments. The position is based in Warren, MI with remote flexibility, and it includes hands-on technical leadership across service design, reviews, and operational readiness.

Role Focus

You will lead the evolution of authorization capabilities, raising authentication and authorization engineering standards while mentoring engineers and partnering across teams to deliver secure, dependable, and easy-to-operate security solutions. Work centers on authorization frameworks, access control architecture, policy-driven and distributed authorization, and ongoing support for critical production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of authorization frameworks aligned to industry standards, with extensions as needed
• Architect and build access control systems that determine whether users can perform actions using permissions, roles, and attributes
• 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, including setting technical direction for how services are built, deployed, and operated on public cloud platforms
• Write clean, testable, and secure code in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, and JavaScript
• Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, then roll them out across product environments
• Define and implement observability for services, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
• Design data models and manage storage using relational and graph databases
• Support critical production systems and participate in an on-call rotation

Required Qualifications

• 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 in role-based and attribute-based access control systems for complex use cases
• Strong programming skills in one or more: Go, Springboot, Python, 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 with a focus 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 (K8s), plus infrastructure automation and comparable DevOps practices
• Experience building secure applications with identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access, secrets, and secure service-to-service communication
• Experience with Azure services including managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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, scalable custom security frameworks and tooling
• Hands-on experience with IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, Zanzibar

Technologies

Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, Springboot, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Azure Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, GitHub Actions, metrics, logs, traces, structured logging, relational databases, graph databases, cloud-native microservices, APIs, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, Zanzibar, IAM, public cloud platforms

Compensation

• Salary range: $160,200 - $246,300 per year
• Bonus potential: incentive pay program with payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefit programs (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

Work Location and Scheduling

The role is based remote. If the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they are expected to report to the location three times a week or at another frequency dictated by the manager.

Relocation, Immigration, and Accommodations

• Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy
• GM does not provide immigration sponsorship for this role. Do not apply if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
• General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the job search or application, email or call 1-800-865-7580