Staff Engineer, Staff Engineer, Hybrid Services & Reliability (SRE)

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a technically opinionated Staff Engineer to join the Hybrid Services & Reliability team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead the reliability of the bench cloud, define SLOs/SLIs, and automate core on-prem utilities for seamless server provisioning.

As a key member, you will mentor peers, drive observability, and oversee data paths from test benches to development runtimes while coordinating with multi-cloud environments for safe autonomous vehicle platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE experience with focus on hybrid cloud.
• Expertise in Linux systems administration and automating networking utilities (DHCP/PXE).
• Deep experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible) and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Define SLOs and SLIs for hybrid cloud services and establish readiness verification.
• Own and automate core on-prem utilities for server provisioning and fleet health.
• Build dashboards and alerts to reduce MTTR and maintain slot availability.
• Ensure data path integrity from test benches to development runtimes.

Skills

Python/Go

Linux administration

Chef/Ansible

Infrastructure as Code

Independent problem solving

Kubernetes

Tools

DHCP/PXE

Job description

Job Description

The Role:

We are hiring a technically opinionated Staff Engineer to serve as a founding member of the Hybrid Services & Reliability (HSR) team at GM. AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) is the core engineering organization responsible for the unified, secure hybrid platform that enables all autonomous vehicle hosting, validation, and testing. You will be responsible for the measurable reliability of the “bench cloud”—the end-to-end environment that flows from physical test benches through the secure cloud network into production runtimes. This role is on the critical path for Super Cruise, where the readiness of our hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems is a Tier-0 requirement for safety validation.

Whatyou’lldo

• Reliability Architecture: Lead the definition and implementation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and SLIs for critical hybrid cloud services, establishing ready-state verification processes.

• Foundational Utilities: Own and automate core on-prem utilities, including DHCP, PXE, and NTP, to enable seamless server auto-provisioning and maintain a healthy fleet of remote CI-based HIL benches.

• Observability & MTTR: Develop and maintain dashboards and alerting to identify slot availability and system degradation, driving down Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) from high-severity incidents.

• Environment Integrity: Ensure uninterrupted data paths and dependency stability as data moves from ingestion at the test bench into the development and staging runtimes.

• Technical Mentorship: Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience, identifying opportunities to improve internal processes and services to support functional strategies.
  

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Required: Extensive professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on hybrid cloud platforms. Coding using Python/Go

• Required: Recognized expertise in Linux systems administration and the automation of foundational networking utilities (DHCP/PXE).

• Required: Deep experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible) and Infrastructure as Code to reduce operational toil.

• Required: Proven ability to work independently on complex issues that require conceptual thinking and the wide application of principles and concepts.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and managing hybrid service connectivity between on-prem and multi-cloud environments.

Compensation:

• The salary range for this role is$184,120 to $275,450. The actual base salary a 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: 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.

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.

Relocation:

This job may be eligible forrelocationbenefits.

Hybrid: This role is based hybridfrom Sunnyvale you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

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