Staff Software Engineer - SRE

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. You'll 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 it's 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.Engineering for Reliability: Strong understanding of common application reliability patterns, with hands-on experience implementing them. 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.Prior experience with Java in production. General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at . In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.Our diverse team of employees bring their collective passion for engineering, technology and design to deliver on our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. We are looking for adventure-seekers and imaginative thought leaders to help us transform mobility.We are determined to lead change for the world through technology, ingenuity and harnessing the creativity of our diverse team. Join us to help lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all by becoming a member of GM's . As a part of our Talent Community, you will receive updates about GM, open roles, career insights and more.Please note that filling out the form below will not add you to our Talent Community automatically; you will need to use the link above. If you are seeking to apply to a specific role, we encourage you to click "Apply Now" on the job posting of interest.