Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
The Role
The rapid adoption of advanced software in vehicles marks a new era for automakers and consumersbringing both opportunity and complexity.
At General Motors our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization is built on software engineering principles. We design and build software that improves the reliability scalability and efficiency of large-scale distributed systems enabling teams to move fast without sacrificing quality.
We are looking for strong Software Engineers to join our SRE team as hands-on Individual this role you will build automation develop reliability tooling and partner closely with product engineering teams to ensure services are designed andoperatedwith reliability in mind from day one. Rather than focusing solely on operations this role emphasizes writing software to solve production problems and reduce operational toil at scale.
As a Software Engineer in SRE you will work across the full lifecycle of servicesfrom design and implementation to operating systems in production.Youlltake ownership of improving system behavior through automation instrumentation and thoughtful engineering while contributing to a culture of shared responsibility where teams build and run their services together.
WhatYoullDo
Design build andmaintainsoftware solutions that automate operational workflows and improve the reliability scalability and performance of production services.
Apply software engineering best practices to reduce toil improve resiliency and enable systems tooperatereliably at scale.
Partner closely with product and platform engineering teams to improve production readiness service quality and long-term maintainability.
Instrument services withappropriate metrics logging and tracing to support observability proactive issue detection and data-driven decision making.
Participate in a shared on-call rotation responding to production incidentsand focusing on long-term fixes rather than short-term mitigations.
Contribute to incident analysis and post-incident reviewsidentifyingsystemic improvements and driving continuous reliability enhancements.
Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to enable safe repeatable and efficient releases.
Collaborate on cost-aware engineering decisions that balance performance reliability and infrastructure efficiency.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Strong software engineering experience withproficiencyin at least one modern programming language such as Java Python or Go.
5 years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience designing building and operating backend or distributed systems in a production environment.
Solid understanding of system fundamentals including how applications interact with operating systems networks data structures and infrastructure.
Demonstrated experience building automation internal tooling or reliability improvements that reduce manual effort and improve system behavior.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines version control systems and modern software development workflows.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across engineering teams and take shared ownership of services in production.
What Will Give YouaCompetitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Experience working in or alongside a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production engineering environment.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure.
Exposure to observability concepts including metrics logging tracing and alerting.
Experience with containerized environments and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
Experienceparticipatingin on-call rotations incident response root cause analysis or post-incident reviews.
Experienceoperatingor supporting large-scale distributed systems in production.
Prior production experience with Java-based services.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paidin accordance withapplicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positionslocatedoutside of New York Colorado California or Washington.
The salary range for this roleis$128400to$269100.The actual basesalarya successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Bonus Potential: An incentivepayprogram offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.
Benefits:
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 tuitionassistanceprograms employeeassistanceprogram GM vehicle discounts and more.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
About Company
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