Software Engineer - SRE

Job Description Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid and is expected to report to Austin TX or Warren MI 3 days per week, (T-W-TH) at minimum [potential subject to change based on business need] The rapid adoption of advanced software in vehicles marks a new era for automakers and consumers, bringing both advantages and challenges. As part of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) database group at General Motors, you'll join a dedicated team focused on enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our distributed database systems. We leverage engineering principles to manage operations effectively and build solutions that enable us to grow without sacrificing performance or quality. Our SREs work closely with software development teams, acting as specialists in reliability and production engineering, with a focus on automation, observability, and shared responsibility. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about maintaining the health of our infrastructure while optimizing for reliability and cost-efficiency. This role involves a blend of database engineering and systems engineering skills to keep our services resilient, robust, and scalable. The Role: The database team within the SRE organization is chartered to provide best-in-class Database Management System (DBMS) project solutions to our application partners worldwide. This role involves modernizing our infrastructure and processes to provide database as a service capability into a highly standardized, reliable, and automated environment. The team is responsible for participating in all phases of the application development life cycle while designing, developing, and deploying databases on behalf of the application in a way that ensures GMu2019s data is secure, highly available, current, flexible, and monitored. This individual will be working on transforming GM applications and database services into modernized cloud offerings. What Youu2019ll Do: + Develop tools and software to automate operational processes, improve system reliability, and reduce manual intervention. + Lead, Implement and improve monitoring and observability frameworks, enabling proactive detection and resolution of incidents. + Participate in an on-call rotation to diagnose, troubleshoot, and mitigate production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and swift resolution. + Work alongside developers to ensure the quality, scalability, and reliability of our database services. Practice shared ownership of services in production, fostering a

Created: 2026-05-02