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General Motors · 1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$128K/yr - $269K/yr

5+ years exp

General Motors is a leading automaker embracing advanced software in vehicles. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Site Reliability Engineering team to design and build software that improves reliability and efficiency of large-scale distributed systems.

AutomotiveElectric VehicleInformation ServicesManufacturingTransportation

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain software 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 to operate reliably at scale

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

Instrument services with appropriate 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, identifying systemic 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

Qualification

JavaPythonGoCI/CD pipelinesDistributed systemsCloud platformsContainer orchestrationCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Strong software engineering experience with proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, or Go

5+ years of experience in software engineering, including experience working with production or site reliability 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