General Motors

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

General Motors • $172K — $300K *
Austin, TX 78745Hybrid
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Infrastructure Software Engineering with large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proven track record of initiating or enhancing SRE programs in organizations with varying reliability maturity.
  • Strong programming skills in at least one major language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, C++).
  • Comprehensive systems knowledge in areas like Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience setting SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, and improving on-call practices.
  • Ability to build cross-team consensus while maintaining service ownership.
  • Ability to discern urgent issues from underlying engineering solutions under uncertain conditions.

Responsibilities

  • Co-found the Site Reliability Engineering practice and turn reliability goals into actionable engineering systems.
  • Design and implement shared tools for service reliability, including service cataloging and error handling.
  • Establish a production reliability architecture, along with minimum standards and guidelines for teams.
  • Collaborate with Incident Management to enhance incident response protocols and ensure blameless practices.
  • Assist service owners in identifying critical services and defining relevant SLIs/SLOs based on different outcomes.
  • Convert repetitive operational tasks into reusable software to empower engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts and Health Savings Account options.
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching.
  • Tuition assistance programs for ongoing education.
  • Employee assistance program for personal and professional support.
  • Generous paid vacation and holidays.
  • GM vehicle discounts and potential relocation benefits.
Full Job Description

Job Description

GM Vehicle Autonomy is forming a centralized Site Reliability Engineering team to make reliability a measurable, engineered property of the systems used to build, validate, release, and operate autonomous-vehicle software.

As one of our founding SREs, you will have the unique opportunity to take this program from 0 to 1. You will not be an embedded support engineer or a centralized help desk. Instead, you will establish the core governance layer, define pragmatic standards, write production automation, and partner with infrastructure teams to help them operate reliably without depending on heroics.

If you are an expert in SRE practices who loves building the machine that builds the machine, this is your chance to shape the reliability culture for the future of autonomous driving.

What You’ll Do

  • Co-found the SRE Practice: Translate our reliability charter into working engineering systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes.

  • Build the Paved Road: Design and build shared reliability tooling and automation for service cataloging, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction.

  • Define the Standards: Establish a risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and a time-bound exception process.

  • Drive Incident Excellence: Partner with Incident Management to operationalize severity, command, and response standards. Establish blameless post-incident practices and ensure corrective actions are tracked and completed.

  • Partner with Service Owners: Help teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs based on developer, vehicle, or operator outcomes.

  • Protect Engineering Capacity: Decline toil transfer and turn repeated manual operational work into reusable software.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer operating large-scale distributed systems.

  • Demonstrated experience taking an SRE or operational excellence program from 0 to 1, or materially improving a program in an organization with uneven reliability maturity.

  • Strong software engineering ability in at least one general-purpose language (Go, Python, Java, C++, etc.).

  • Deep systems knowledge across several domains: Linux, networking, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or observability.

  • Practical, hands-on experience defining SLIs/SLOs, using error budgets, designing actionable alerts, and improving on-call health.

  • The ability to build consensus and drive adoption of standards across teams without taking away their ownership of the underlying services.

  • Sound judgment under ambiguity: you can distinguish urgent operational symptoms from the engineering work required to prevent recurrence.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or another high-consequence production environment.

  • Experience with hybrid cloud/on-premises environments and foundational platform services.

  • Experience with data or ML platforms, including data freshness, distributed training, model artifacts, or model serving.

  • Experience building service catalogs, production-readiness automation, reliability scorecards, or policy-as-code.

  • Experience facilitating game days, failure injection, regional failover, or disaster-recovery exercises.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.  

  • The salary range for this role: is $172,000 to $300,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. 

  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. 

  • Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more.

    Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.  

    Remote/Hybrid: This role is based in Sunnyvale, CA or Austin, TX  if you live within a 50-mile radius of an office location you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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