Senior Software Engineer SRE
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
21 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
The rapid adoption of advanced software in vehicles marks a new era for automakers and consumers bringing both advantages and challenges.
As part of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at General motors youll join a dedicated team focused on enhancing the reliability efficiency and scalability of our distributed systems. We leverage engineering principles to manage operations effectively and build solutions that enable us to grow without sacrificing performance or quality. Our SREs work closely with software development teams acting as specialists in reliability and production engineering with a focus on automation observability and shared responsibility. This includes building and maintaining our observability stack to ensure robust telemetry and actionable insights.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about maintaining the health of our infrastructure while optimizing for reliability and cost-efficiency. This role involves a blend of software engineering and systems engineering skills to keep our services resilient robust and scalable.
This role is for a hands-on position as an Individual Contributor (IC). As an SRE IC you will focus on enhancing the reliability efficiency and performance of our services. Youll work closely with other engineers to develop automated solutions respond to incidents and drive improvements across our infrastructure. The expectation for this role is that you will maintain a hands-on approach whether its through scripting troubleshooting incidents or improving observability. As an IC you will be at the forefront of solving technical challenges and making impactful improvements that directly enhance the quality of service for our users. The role requires a blend of software engineering and systems engineering skills to address complex production challenges effectively. This includes building and maintaining our observability stack to ensure robust telemetry and actionable insights.
Key Responsibilities:
This role emphasizes ownership of specific reliability technologies such as observability container orchestration and CI/CD platforms.
Automation and Reliability Improvements: Develop tools and software to automate operational processes improve system reliability and reduce manual intervention.
Observability and Monitoring: Lead Implement and improve monitoring and observability frameworks enabling proactive detection and resolution of incidents. This includes building and maintaining our observability stack to ensure robust telemetry and actionable insights.
Incident Response: Participate in an on-call rotation to diagnose troubleshoot and mitigate production incidents ensuring minimal downtime and swift resolution.
Collaboration with Development Teams: Work alongside developers to ensure the quality scalability and reliability of our services. Practice shared ownership of services in production fostering a You build it you run it culture.
Service Level Management: Manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to manage reliability expectations effectively.
Engineering for Reliability: Strong understanding of common application reliability patterns with hands-on experience implementing them.
Failure Analysis and Post-Incident Reviews: Conduct deep-dive analyses of incidents and collaborate on post-incident reviews to derive learnings and prevent recurrence. Champion a culture of continuous improvement.
Cost Efficiency: Evaluate system performance and advocate for optimisations that reduce infrastructure costs while maintaining service reliability.
Skills and Qualifications:
Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python Go Java) and familiarity with multiple language ecosystems.
Systems Knowledge: Solid understanding of operating systems networking distributed systems databases and storage architectures.
Strong Understanding of System Fundamentals: Deep understanding of how code runs on underlying hardware including operating systems algorithms and data structures. Ability to optimize or troubleshoot code by understanding its execution and the impact on system resources.
Incident Management: Experience handling production incidents including root cause analysis mitigation and working through complex system failures.
Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills with an ability to explain technical concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders. Commitment to collaborative problem-solving and shared ownership of services.
Automation Focus: Proven experience in automating manual processes building deployment pipelines or managing configuration systems.
Preferred Experience:
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
Familiarity with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes. You will also be responsible for developing and supporting our container orchestration platform ensuring it meets scalability and reliability needs.
A track record of managing or developing distributed systems.
Prior experience with Java in production.
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
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
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