Staff Site Reliability Engineer/Developer – Vehicle Security Platforms

GM

15d • Remote

About The Position

Join General Motors’ Vehicle Security Platforms (VSP) teams, where we build resilient, secure, and scalable platforms supporting mission-critical vehicle security communications. We seek an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with extensive experience in scaling distributed systems and driving end-to-end reliability strategies.
In this role, you will shape the reliability of GM’s next-generation vehicle security platforms, influence cross-organizational architecture decisions, and embed reliability as a first-class product concern. Your leadership will contribute directly to protecting millions of vehicles and customers globally.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure/platform roles supporting secure, scalable systems.
• Strong Proven expertise in designing and scaling cloud infrastructure (Azure) and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Demonstrated mastery of infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, etc).
• Proficiency in Python and one JVM language (Java or Kotlin), and working knowledge of Go.
• Deep architectural understanding of distributed systems, networking, system design, and large-scale security practices.
• Track record of architecting and running zero-downtime systems in production.
• Experience with modern monitoring and reliability tooling and frameworks (Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Experience leading incident response, uptime SLO/SLA management, and operational excellence initiatives across multiple teams.
• Capable of influencing architecture and product strategy while maintaining a hands-on approach to systems reliability.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to present complex trade-offs and foster alignment across executive, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.
• Deep understanding of encryption technologies, secure data handling practices, and identity management.
• Experience designing and operating IoT or automotive-focused architectures with rigorous availability and safety requirements.
• Direct experience in chaos engineering, game-day testing, disaster recovery orchestration, and production load testing.
• Ability to grow and mentor engineers into leaders in their domain, building SRE teams that can operate independently at scale.
• Demonstrated success in defining and executing reliability strategies with measurable business impact.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to balance engineering excellence with speed and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Implement, and evolve secure, highly available, and globally distributed systems powering GM’s vehicle security platforms.
• Own reliability roadmaps, establishing frameworks and strategies for system hardening, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational scalability.
• Develop automation-first solutions to eliminate operational toil, with advanced use of languages such as Python, Go, and Java.
• Lead incident response, driving systematic elimination of failure modes through blameless postmortems PRRs and cross-team preventative initiatives.
• Drive observability strategies with best-in-class practices for metrics, logging, and distributed tracing, using Prometheus, Datadog, or similar stacks.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and security teams to design for reliability from inception, influencing architecture reviews and CI/CD best practices.
• Lead optimization, capacity planning, and performance-tuning strategies for large-scale, security-critical platforms.
• Introduce modern SRE practices such as chaos engineering, resilience testing, and progressive delivery to validate support teams and evolve system safety along with SLO, SLI, and SLAs.
• Mentor engineers across disciplines on SRE, platform resilience, secure operational practices, and architectural trade-offs.
• Evaluate and adopt technologies (open-source, enterprise, homegrown) for security and reliability at scale.
• Influence product strategy in partnership with engineering leads, ensuring operational reliability is prioritized alongside customer and business outcomes.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees