Founding SRE Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Reliability

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Employee discounts

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 an early SRE, you will establish governance, write automation, and partner with infra teams to operate reliably beyond heroics.

You will co-found the SRE practice, build shared tooling, set standards, and drive incident excellence while collaborating with service owners to map dependencies and SLIs/SLOs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer.
• Experience taking an SRE or operational excellence program from 0 to 1, or improving maturity.
• Strong software engineering in at least one language (Go, Python, Java, C++, etc.).
• Deep systems knowledge across Linux, networking, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or observability.
• Practical 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 ownership from teams.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity: distinguish urgent ops from engineering work to prevent recurrence.

Responsibilities

• Co-found the SRE Practice: translate reliability charter into engineering systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes.
• Build the Paved Road: design and build 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; ensure blameless post-incident actions.
• Partner with Service Owners: help teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and set meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
• Protect Engineering Capacity: decline toil transfer and turn repeated manual work into reusable software.

Skills

SRE/Production Engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Java

C++

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

SLI/SLOs

Incident management

Tools

CI/CD

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 an early SRE, you will establish governance, write automation, and partner with infra teams to operate reliably beyond heroics.

You will co-found the SRE practice, build shared tooling, set standards, and drive incident excellence while collaborating with service owners to map dependencies and SLIs/SLOs.