Staff Cybersecurity Software Engineer - Authorization Services

Build secure authorization services at production scale with General Motors. This remote role in Warren, MI is for a staff-level individual contributor who will lead authorization capabilities, strengthen security engineering standards, and help teams deliver easy-to-operate security products. If you value reliability, clear technical guidance, and improving how services are designed and run in public cloud environments, this position offers room to set direction.

What you’ll do

• Lead design and implementation of authorization frameworks that follow industry standards and expand beyond them.
• Architect and build access control systems that use permissions, roles, and attributes to determine who can perform specific actions.
• Define and implement policy-driven and distributed authorization approaches.
• Drive security and authorization reviews across services and manage remediation of identified issues.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices and APIs, setting technical direction for build, deployment, and operational practices on public cloud platforms.
• Write clean, testable, and secure code using one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, then roll those practices out across product environments.
• Define and implement 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.

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 building and maintaining 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 and deployment automation such as Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, or comparable tooling.
• Experience applying AI-assisted software engineering across design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Advanced problem-solving with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including leading 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 such as managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services.
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions or comparable technologies, source control, and production release practices.
• Experience with observability: 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 experience building highly available and scalable custom security frameworks and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, Zanzibar.

Compensation and incentives

The salary range for this role is $160,200-$246,300 per year. Bonus potential is available through an incentive pay program with payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Remote and in-person expectations

This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week or at another frequency dictated by the manager.

Relocation, accommodations, and sponsorship

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

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 and holidays
• Tuition assistance programs
• Employee assistance program
• GM vehicle discounts