Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
General MotorsBase Salary
$172k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Co-found and operationalize the centralized SRE practice from 0 to 1.
- Build shared reliability tooling and automation for service catalogs, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction.
- Define risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and time-bound exception processes.
- Partner with Incident Management to establish severity, command, response, blameless post-incident, and corrective-action practices.
- Help service owners classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and define meaningful SLIs and SLOs.
- Convert recurring manual operational work into reusable software and protect engineering capacity from toil transfer.
Requirements
- Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience creating an SRE or operational excellence program from 0 to 1 or materially improving reliability maturity.
- Strong software engineering ability in at least one general-purpose language such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
- Deep systems knowledge across several areas including Linux, networking, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.
- Hands-on experience defining SLIs and SLOs, using error budgets, designing actionable alerts, and improving on-call health.
- Ability to build consensus and drive adoption of cross-team reliability standards while preserving service-owner ownership.
- Sound judgment under ambiguity and ability to distinguish urgent operational symptoms from preventative engineering work.
- Preferred experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or other high-consequence production environments.
- Preferred experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, foundational platform services, data or ML platforms, service catalogs, reliability scorecards, policy-as-code, game days, failure injection, regional failover, or disaster-recovery exercises.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account benefit options.
- Retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and employee assistance program.
- GM vehicle discounts and potential relocation benefits.
- Hybrid arrangement based in Sunnyvale, California or Austin, Texas; employees within 50 miles of an office are expected to report in person at least three times per week.
About General Motors
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