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Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description GM Vehicle Autonomy is forming a centralized Site Reliability Engineering team to make reliability a measurable, engineered property of the systems used to build, validate, release, and operate autonomous-vehicle software. As one of our founding SREs, you will have the unique opportunity to take this program from 0 to 1. You will not be an embedded support engineer or a centralized help desk. Instead, you will establish the core governance layer, define pragmatic standards, write production automation, and partner with infrastructure teams to help them operate reliably without depending on heroics. If you are an expert in SRE practices who loves building the machine that builds the machine, this is your chance to shape the reliability culture for the future of autonomous driving. What You’ll Do • Co-found the SRE Practice: Translate our reliability charter into working engineering systems, adoption paths, and measurable outcomes. • Build the Paved Road: Design and build shared reliability tooling and automation for service cataloging, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction. • Define the Standards: Establish a risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and a time-bound exception process. • Drive Incident Excellence: Partner with Incident Management to operationalize severity, command, and response standards. Establish blameless post-incident practices and ensure corrective actions are tracked and completed. • Partner with Service Owners: Help teams classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and establish meaningful SLIs/SLOs based on developer, vehicle, or operator outcomes. • Protect Engineering Capacity: Decline toil transfer and turn repeated manual operational work into reusable software. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) • Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer operating large-scale distributed systems. • Demonstrated experience taking an SRE or operational excellence program from 0 to 1, or materially improving a program in an organization with uneven reliability maturity. • Strong software engineering ability in at least one general-purpose language (Go, Python, Java, C++, etc.). • Deep systems knowledge across several domains: Linux, networking, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or observability. • Practical, hands-on experience defining SLIs/SLOs, using error budgets, designing actionable alerts, and improving on-call health. • The ability to build consensus and drive adoption of standards across teams without taking away their ownership of the underlying services. • Sound judgment under ambiguity: you can distinguish urgent operational symptoms from the engineering work required to prevent recurrence. What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) • Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or another high-consequence production environment. • Experience with hybrid cloud/on-premises environments and foundational platform services. • Experience with data or ML platforms, including data freshness, distributed training, model artifacts, or model serving. • Experience building service catalogs, production-readiness automation, reliability scorecards, or policy-as-code. • Experience facilitating game days, failure injection, regional failover, or disaster-recovery exercises. Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washingto