Staff Engineer, Staff Engineer, Hybrid Services & Reliability (SRE)

About the role

The Hybrid Services & Reliability (HSR) team at GM is seeking a technically opinionated Staff Engineer to serve as a founding member. AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) is the core engineering organization responsible for the unified, secure hybrid platform that enables all autonomous vehicle hosting, validation, and testing. You will be responsible for the measurable reliability of the "bench cloud"—the end-to-end environment that flows from physical test benches through the secure cloud network into production runtimes. This role is on the critical path for Super Cruise, where the readiness of our hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems is a Tier-0 requirement for safety validation.

What You'll Do

• Reliability Architecture: Lead the definition and implementation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and SLIs for critical hybrid cloud services, establishing ready-state verification processes.
• Foundational Utilities: 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.
• Observability & MTTR: Develop and maintain dashboards and alerting to identify slot availability and system degradation, driving down Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) from high-severity incidents.
• Environment Integrity: Ensure uninterrupted data paths and dependency stability as data moves from ingestion at the test bench into the development and staging runtimes.
• Technical Mentorship: Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience, identifying opportunities to improve internal processes and services to support functional strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on hybrid cloud platforms.
• Coding using Python/Go.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and managing hybrid service connectivity between on-prem and multi-cloud environments.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $184,120 to $275,500. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement savings plan
• Sickness and accident benefits and life insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Tuition assistance programs
• Employee assistance program
• GM vehicle discounts

Schedule

This role is based hybrid from Sunnyvale; you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.