Senior Software Engineer
General Motors1 day ago
Limerick, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, and observable infrastructure for OnStar mobile, web, in-vehicle, backend, and integration services.
- Drive configuration management, infrastructure refactoring, and testing-framework adoption to strengthen system resilience.
- Improve service reliability, deployment safety, and incident response practices across SRE, development, and product teams.
- Develop observability practices using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, automated alerting, and actionable SLO dashboards.
- Support on-call operations, lead blameless postmortems, and guide root cause analysis to prevent recurring failures.
- Consult on reliability standards for new capabilities, releases, and platform initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to privacy, compliance, data-retention, and safety-certification tooling initiatives.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading project-level technical work.
- Track record building and maintaining high-scale, cloud-native systems, preferably with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Expertise with Kubernetes and deployment strategies using CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, with strong code-review and code-readability practices.
- Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure, configuration-strategy, or organizational-tooling projects.
- Ability to troubleshoot live incidents and balance uptime against cost trade-offs.
- Strong communication, influencing, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
- Familiarity with privacy engineering, data security, or compliance frameworks is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring the successful candidate to report to the Limerick office at least three times per week.
- Opportunity to work on global connected-services infrastructure supporting millions of OnStar customers.
- Collaborative culture focused on sustainability, inclusive innovation, and meaningful engineering projects.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.