Manager, Software Engineering - Site Reliability Engineering

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers within the Site Reliability Engineering organization
• Set technical direction and priorities aligned with organizational and reliability goals
• Design, build, and maintain production-grade software and internal tooling that improves system reliability, scalability, and developer productivity
• Drive engineering best practices across code quality, testing, deployment, and system design
• Review architecture and code to ensure the use of common reliability patterns such as fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and scalability
• Partner closely with product, platform, and application engineering teams to support shared ownership of services in production
• Support a "you build it, you run it" culture across the software lifecycle
• Participate in and support on-call rotations as needed to diagnose and resolve complex production incidents
• Lead incident reviews and postmortems, turning learnings into concrete engineering improvements
• Define and manage reliability goals using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Advocate for performance improvements and architectural optimizations that reduce operational overhead while maintaining reliability

Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience in software development teams
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java) and familiarity with multiple language ecosystems
• Solid understanding of operating systems, networking, distributed systems, databases, and storage architectures
• Deep understanding of how code runs on underlying hardware, including operating systems, algorithms, and data structures
• Ability to optimize or troubleshoot code by understanding execution paths and the impact on system resources
• Experience handling production incidents, including root cause analysis, mitigation, and working through complex system failures
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders
• Commitment to collaborative problem-solving and shared ownership of services
• Proven experience automating manual processes, building deployment pipelines, or managing configuration systems

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience designing or operating large-scale distributed systems
• Prior experience developing and supporting Java-based services in production

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 Washington. The salary range for this role is $165,00 - $298,800. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

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 This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. A company vehicle will be provided for this role with successful completion of a Motor Vehicle Report review.

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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, Mountain View, CA, Warren, MI

Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202505731

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-20T00:11:24