Founding SRE - Build a Reliable Autonomy Platform

General Motors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Retirement savings plan

Tuition assistance programs

Paid vacation & holidays

Employee assistance program

Job summary

GM Vehicle Autonomy is building a centralized Site Reliability Engineering team to make reliability a measurable, engineered property of autonomous-vehicle software. As a founding SRE, you will establish core governance, write production automation, and partner with infrastructure teams to operate reliably without heroics.

You will define standards, design shared tooling for SLOs, error budgets, and incident response, and collaborate with service owners to map dependencies and meaningful

Qualifications

• 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 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.
• The ability to build consensus and drive adoption of standards across teams without taking away their ownership of the underlying services.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity: distinguish urgent operational symptoms from the engineering work required to prevent recurrence.

Responsibilities

• Co-found the SRE Practice: Translate reliability charter into working systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes.
• Build the Paved Road: Create shared reliability tooling for service cataloging, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction.
• Define the Standards: Establish a risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and a time-bound exception process.
• Drive Incident Excellence: Partner with Incident Management to operationalize severity, command, and response standards; establish blameless post-incident practices.
• Partner with Service Owners: Help teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
• Protect Engineering Capacity: Decline toil transfer and convert repeated manual work into reusable software.

Skills

SRE

Production Engineer

Infrastructure Software Engineer

Go

Python

Java

C++

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

SLIs/SLOs

Incident Management

Reliability tooling

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

GM Vehicle Autonomy is building a centralized Site Reliability Engineering team to make reliability a measurable, engineered property of autonomous-vehicle software. As a founding SRE, you will establish core governance, write production automation, and partner with infrastructure teams to operate reliably without heroics.

You will define standards, design shared tooling for SLOs, error budgets, and incident response, and collaborate with service owners to map dependencies and meaningful