Staff Site Reliability Engineer, SRE

General Motors

Staff SRE building governance, automation, and reliability standards for GM’s autonomous-vehicle software. Partnering with infrastructure teams across Sunnyvale and Austin.

Posted 9/4/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $172,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) by establishing reliability practices, defining SLIs/SLOs, and implementing automation for operational excellence. Proficient in software engineering and systems knowledge across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD processes.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Software Engineering (Go, Python, Java, C++)SLIs/SLOs DefinitionCloud InfrastructureKubernetes

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringSoftware EngineeringSLIs/SLOs DefinitionError BudgetsProduction Reliability ArchitectureAutomationService CatalogingCI/CDObservabilityIncident Management

Soft Skills

Consensus BuildingSound JudgmentCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesCloud InfrastructureCI/CD ToolsObservability ToolsHybrid Cloud

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsOperational ExcellenceHigh-Consequence Production EnvironmentData PlatformsML Platforms

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

C++CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaKubernetesLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Co-found the SRE practice by translating the reliability charter into engineering systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes
Design and build shared reliability tooling and automation for service cataloging, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction
Establish risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and a time-bound exception process
Partner with Incident Management to operationalize severity, command, and response standards
Establish blameless post-incident practices and ensure corrective actions are tracked and completed
Help service teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs
Turn repeated manual operational work into reusable software and protect engineering capacity

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Ability to build consensus and drive adoption of standards across teams without taking away ownership of underlying services
Sound judgment under ambiguity
Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or another high-consequence production environment preferred
Experience with hybrid cloud/on-premises environments and foundational platform services preferred
Experience with data or ML platforms preferred
Experience building service catalogs, production-readiness automation, reliability scorecards, or policy-as-code preferred
Experience facilitating game days, failure injection, regional failover, or disaster-recovery exercises preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus potential through an incentive pay program based on company, job-level, and individual performance
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
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
Potential relocation benefits