Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Description

GM Vehicle Autonomy is forming a centralized Site Reliability Engineering team to make reliability a measurable, engineered property of the systems used to build, validate, release, and operate autonomous-vehicle software.

As one of our founding SREs, you will have the unique opportunity to take this program from 0 to 1. You will not be an embedded support engineer or a centralized help desk. Instead, you will establish the core governance layer, define pragmatic standards, write production automation, and partner with infrastructure teams to help them operate reliably without depending on heroics.

If you are an expert in SRE practices who loves building the machine that builds the machine, this is your chance to shape the reliability culture for the future of autonomous driving.

What You’ll Do

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• Co-found the SRE Practice: Translate our reliability charter into working engineering systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes.
• Build the Paved Road: Design and build shared reliability tooling and automation 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 and ensure corrective actions are tracked and completed.
• Partner with Service Owners: Help teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs based on developer, vehicle, or operator outcomes.
• Protect Engineering Capacity: Decline toil transfer and turn repeated manual operational work into reusable software.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

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