General Motors
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
$172K–$300K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- Significant experience required; no number of years stated.
About the job
Co-found a centralized SRE practice for autonomous-vehicle software by building reliability standards, shared tooling, and operational processes across development and production systems.
What you'll do
- Build shared reliability tooling and automation for service catalogs, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction.
- Establish reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and an exception process.
- Improve incident response and partner with service owners to define service criticality, dependencies, failure modes, and meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
What they ask for
- Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience launching or materially improving an SRE or operational excellence program.
- Software engineering ability in at least one general-purpose language.
- Hands-on experience with SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, actionable alerts, and on-call health; systems knowledge across several listed domains.
Nice to have
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or other high-consequence production environments.
- Experience with hybrid cloud/on-premises, data or ML platforms, reliability automation, or failure and disaster-recovery exercises.
Pay
$172,000 to $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Python, Java, C++, Linux, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD
AI focus
No AI work is specified; the posting notes preferred experience with data or ML platforms.
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