General Motors
Job title:
Staff Engineer, Applications, Site Reliability Engineering
Company
General Motors
Job description
Job DescriptionSoftware-defined vehicles represent a new paradigm for automakers and consumers, fueled by technological advancements and an escalating demand for transportation solutions that are not only intelligent but also safer and more environmentally sustainable. At the core of this transformative shift lies vehicle data – the driving force behind safety, security, commerce, entertainment, energy, and the creation of a seamless user experience.The creation and adoption of sophisticated data-driven software solutions promises to be a catalyst for heightened efficiency, lowered costs, improved safety, better decision-making, and increased customer satisfaction. At General Motors, we have embarked on an ambitious journey to pioneer next-generation data solutions to support all our business units. The site reliability engineering team has a mission to relentlessly pursue the most efficient way to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations of our vehicle data platform.To fulfill our mission, we are actively expanding our teams in Limerick, Silicon Valley, Detroit, Toronto, and Atlanta. We seek individuals who can blend a passion for technology and sustainability with curiosity, rigorous thinking and a strong customer centric approach. This is an exciting opportunity to have a far-reaching impact on the business, our customers, our communities, and the world. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey toward a better future.The RoleThis is a senior technical leadership role, and we are looking for individuals who have demonstrated success in designing and maintaining large-scale, complex systems with a focus on the application layer. Our engineers have a passion for quality, efficiency, and reliability to help us accelerate and innovate in this exciting and critical space. Our team believes in extreme ownership where we manage the scale, availability, and operations for our applications. As a staff engineer, you’ll be creating patterns for reliability, implementing reliability patterns into our applications, and creating observability into our applications to support the vehicle data operations for millions of vehicles on a global scale. You will work with the embedded vehicle teams, data engineers, infrastructure engineers, developer experience, and application teams to bring these services and client experiences to life. As a key member of our SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of how we build reliable and efficient software systems for the next generation of transportation.What you’ll do in this role:Design and implement reliability patterns for client applications, communication protocols, and back-office servicesOperate and influence data collection, processing, and delivery systems that are scalable, resilient, and capable of operating on millions of vehicles at a global scaleLeverage monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to ensure system health and reliabilityLead automation efforts to reduce toil and keep our systems running efficientlyLead incident response efforts, ensure root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement after incidentsDrive postmortem processes, focusing on identifying and remediating systemic issues to prevent recurrenceParticipate in mentorship programs to help grow the team from your experiencesThis role will require on-call availability to support a 24/7 follow-the-sun operationQualifications:8+ years of experience engineering reliabilityExperience building and operating enterprise cloud applicationsExperience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and container orchestration technologies like KubernetesFamiliarity with security practices such as DevSecOps, and ensuring secure and compliant infrastructure as part of reliability engineeringAbility to lead technical decision-making, balancing reliability, performance, and costAbility to make challenging decisions under pressureAbility to learn complex systems in order to identify and mitigate incidentsAbility to work well cross-functionally and navigate through ambiguityStrong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiencesBS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering preferredAbout GMOur 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 UsWe aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. 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. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.Diversity InformationGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Expected salary
Location
Limerick
Job date
Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:26:55 GMT
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