Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer at General Motors in Ireland

Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer Location: Leinster, Ireland Job Description OnStar is a cornerstone of General Motors’ connected services—bringing safety, security, diagnostics, navigation, and convenience to customers through themobile apps,website, and thein-vehicle experience, supported by a complex set of cloud services and integrationsoperatingat global scale. To support this,we’rescaling ourSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)organization in Dublin, responsible for keeping the OnStar product line resilient, performant, and scalable for millions of customers. We are seeking anexperienced technical leaderwith a deep background in SRE, cloud operations, and project ownership to help define, build, and evolve reliability practices across our customer-facing OnStar experiences and the services behind them. WhatYou’llBe Doing Lead the design and implementation ofscalable, fault-tolerant, and observable infrastructuresupporting OnStar mobile and web experiences, in-vehicle services, and the backend platforms and integrations that power them. Championconfiguration management,infrastructure refactoring, andtesting frameworksto strengthen system resilience. Partner across SRE, development, and product teams to improveservice reliability, deployment safety, andincident response practices. Drive internal consultation and strategic planning onreliability standardsfor new OnStar capabilities, customer-facing releases, and platform initiatives. Define and evolveobservabilitystrategyusing tools such asPrometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, with automated alerting and actionable SLO dashboards. Own and improveon-call practices, manage blameless postmortems, and guide root cause analysis toeliminaterecurring failures. Mentor engineers and help shape a high-performance culture rooted inextreme ownershipand operational excellence. Support compliance andprivacy-driven engineeringinitiatives across connected services, with potential crossover into areas likedata retentionandsafety certification tooling. What You Bring 8+ years inSRE, DevOps, or systems engineering, including experience managing or mentoring high-impact teams. Track recordof building andmaintaininghigh-scale, cloud-native systems(preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure). Expertiseincontainer orchestrationand deployment strategies usingKubernetesandCI/CD pipelines. ProficiencyinPython, Go, or Java, with strong code review and readability standards. Experience leadingcross-functional infrastructure projects, configuration strategy, ororganizational tooling initiatives. Ability to think and act under pressure — whether debugging a live incident or balancing uptime vs cost trade-offs. Familiarity withprivacy engineering, data security, or experience supportingcompliance frameworksis a plus. Strong communicationskills — able to influence, mentor, and lead across diverse technical teams. Hybrid - This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to our Dublin office three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business]. Why Join Us? This is more than an engineering role —it’san opportunity to help deliver reliable connected experiences customers depend on. At GM,you’lljoin a team committed tocutting-edgetechnology,sustainability, andinclusive innovation. With meaningful projects, a collaborative culture, and a global mission, your impact will be tangible and far-reaching—improving reliability across OnStar mobile apps, web experiences, in-vehicle services, and the systems behind them. Ready to lead reliability at scale? Join our SRE team in Dublin and help power trusted OnStar experiences for millions of customers. About GM Our 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 Us 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. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team. Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. 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