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Job Description

The Role

The rapid adoption of advanced software in vehicles marks a new era for automakers and consumers—bringing both opportunity and complexity.

At General Motors, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization is built on software engineering principles. We design and build software that improves the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of large-scale distributed systems, enabling teams to move fast without sacrificing quality.

We are looking for strong Software Engineers to join our SRE team as hands-on Individual Contributors. In this role, you will build automation, develop reliability tooling, and partner closely with product engineering teams to ensure services are designed and operated with reliability in mind from day one. Rather than focusing solely on operations, this role emphasizes writing software to solve production problems and reduce operational toil at scale.

As a Software Engineer in SRE, you will work across the full lifecycle of services—from design and implementation to operating systems in production. You’ll take ownership of improving system behavior through automation, instrumentation, and thoughtful engineering, while contributing to a culture of shared responsibility where teams build and run their services together.

What** **You’ll** **Do

+ Design, build, andmaintainsoftware solutions that automate operational workflows and improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of production services.

+ Apply software engineering best practices to reduce toil, improve resiliency, and enable systems tooperatereliably at scale.

+ Partner closely with product and platform engineering teams to improve production readiness, service quality, and long-term maintainability.

+ Instrument services withappropriate metrics, logging, and tracing to support observability, proactive issue detection, and data-driven decision making.

+ Participate in a shared on-call rotation, responding to production incidents,and focusing on long-term fixes rather than short-term mitigations.

+ Contribute to incident analysis and post-incident reviews,identifyingsystemic improvements and driving continuous reliability enhancements.

+ Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to enable safe, repeatable, and efficient releases.

+ Collaborate on cost-aware engineering decisions that balance performance, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

+ Strong software engineering experience withproficiencyin at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, or Go.

+ 5+ years of experienceinsoftware engineering,including experience working with production orsitereliability teams.

+ Experience designing, building, and operating backend or distributed systems in a production environment.

+ Solid understanding of system fundamentals, including how applications interact with operating systems, networks, data structures, and infrastructure.

+ Demonstrated experience building automation, internal tooling, or reliability improvements that reduce manual effort and improve system behavior.

+ Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern software development workflows.

+ Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering teams and take shared ownership of services in production.

What Will Give You** **a** **Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

+ Experience working in or alongside a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production engineering environment.

+ Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

+ Exposure to observability concepts, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.

+ Experience with containerized environments and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

+ Experienceparticipatingin on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, or post-incident reviews.

+ Experienceoperatingor supporting large-scale distributed systems in production.

+ Prior production experience with Java-based services.

_Compensation_ : The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

+ The salary range for this roleis $128,400to $269,100.The actual basesalarya 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:_

+ 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.

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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

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Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

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