Hybrid Staff Engineer, Hybrid Services – Reliability (SRE)

at General Motors

• Job title: Staff Engineer, Hybrid Services – Reliability (SRE)
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $184,120 - $275,450 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Chef, Cloud, Linux
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sunnyvale, United States

About the role

• Staff Engineer for GM's Hybrid Services & Reliability team. Driving reliability architecture and maintenance for hybrid cloud services with a focus on SRE principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and implementation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and SLIs for critical hybrid cloud services, establishing ready-state verification processes.
• Own and automate core on-prem utilities, including DHCP, PXE, and NTP, to enable seamless server auto-provisioning and maintain a healthy fleet of remote CI-based HIL benches.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and alerting to identify slot availability and system degradation, driving down Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) from high-severity incidents.
• Ensure uninterrupted data paths and dependency stability as data moves from ingestion at the test bench into the development and staging runtimes.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience, identifying opportunities to improve internal processes and services to support functional strategies.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on hybrid cloud platforms.
• Recognized expertise in Linux systems administration and the automation of foundational networking utilities (DHCP/PXE).
• Deep experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible) and Infrastructure as Code to reduce operational toil.
• Proven ability to work independently on complex issues that require conceptual thinking and the wide application of principles and concepts.

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, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.