Staff Security Software Engineer Security Operations

Job Description

The Role

GMsCybersecurity Teamsafeguards the companys global information assets networks and infrastructure. Our mission is to proactively defend GM against evolving cyber threats through strategic leadership technical excellence and innovative risk management. We seek cybersecurity professionals with advanced expertise capable of driving enterprise security initiatives and influencing organizational resilience.

As a Staff Security Software Engineer on GMs Security Operations Engineering team you will define the technical strategy and architecture for enterprise-scale security integrations and AI-driven automation. Youll set standards for how data flows across our security stack create platform capabilities that multiple teams build upon and influence executive roadmap decisions. You operate with high autonomy shape organizational practices and deliver platform-level outcomes.

What Youll Do

• Set the reference architecture for security data integration and AI orchestration (agents policy-guard railed workflows governance).
• Lead cross-org programs that unify SIEM/EDR/IAM/SSPM/CSPM/ITSM/cloud data models and establish single sources of truth.
• Operationalize AI at scale with safety privacy and governanceincluding data retention PII controls model routing evaluation and fallback strategies.
• Drive cost/performance optimization (throughput latency storage tiering vector index strategies) for high-volume security telemetry.
• Influence vendor strategy and negotiate integration roadmaps; guide build-vs-buy decisions and multi-year investments.
• Mentor/coach Staff/Senior engineers; build a culture of design excellence pragmatic risk management and measurable outcomes.
• Communicate upward with crisp executive narratives metrics and business impact framing.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 8 years in software engineering with a focus on distributed systems security integrations and data platforms.
• Deep expertise building event-driven horizontally scalable services and contract-first APIs.
• Track record productizing AI in security workflows (multi-agent patterns RAG at scale evaluation harnesses guardrails red-teaming).
• Cloud architecture depth (Azure/AWS/GCP) including networking Kubernetes service meshes observability stacks and IaC at scale.
• Data platform expertise: streaming (Kafka/Event Hub/PubSub) vector/search (pgvector/FAISS/Pinecone) schema/versioning governance/lineage..
• Demonstrated org-wide influence: authored standards drove cross-team adoption led multi-quarter programs to successful outcomes.
• Exceptional communication with executives; ability to frame risk ROI and tradeoffs succinctly.

• Led creation of shared security data model or knowledge graph spanning multiple tools and clouds.
• Experience with AI safety/privacy: policy engines data minimization content filtering evaluation metrics.
• Vendor ecosystem leadership: co-developing integrations shaping roadmaps or contributing to standards (e.g. STIX/TAXII).

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.

Benefits Overview

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