Motorsport Data Platforms Engineer - Telemetry & Analytics

Motion Applied; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Applied is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data Platforms Team to build and enhance the ATLAS telemetry system, delivering real-time and historic data insights for F1 and motorsport. The role focuses on robust software design across C#.NET, WPF, SQL, and cloud-based microservices, with collaboration across product managers, field engineers, and developers.

You will contribute to testing, documentation, releases, and continuous improvement, while upholding Agile practices and quality

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Proficiency in C#.NET
• Experience with WPF
• Experience with SQL
• Git version control and branching
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
• Agile project management practices
• Team player and independent worker
• Attention to detail and analytical skills
• Experience with graphics APIs (DirectX or similar)
• Experience in C++/CLI
• Database scaling, optimization, monitoring
• Time series databases
• Familiarity with Kafka
• Cloud & microservices (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Learning new languages (Python, Angular, React)
• Dependency injection frameworks (Autofac)
• Distributed computing, ML, data science
• Building data pipelines and streaming apps
• Motorsport enthusiasm

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Field Application Engineers to resolve race issues
• Analyze user requirements for validity and feasibility
• Detect, document, and track software defects
• Apply QA principles across Agile lifecycle
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities with Data Platforms team
• Maintain unit test coverage to company standards
• Support PRs, peer reviews, knowledge transfer
• Contribute to release planning and burndowns with estimates
• Write technical documentation
• Identify risk and escalations when required

Skills

C#.NET

WPF

SQL

Git

Azure DevOps

Agile

Teamwork

CI/CD

Graphics APIs

C++/CLI

Cloud & Microservices

Data pipelines

Time series DBs

Kafka

Machine Learning

Education

First class degree or 2:1 in CS or related field

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Kafka

Job description

Motion Applied is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data Platforms Team to build and enhance the ATLAS telemetry system, delivering real-time and historic data insights for F1 and motorsport. The role focuses on robust software design across C#.NET, WPF, SQL, and cloud-based microservices, with collaboration across product managers, field engineers, and developers.

You will contribute to testing, documentation, releases, and continuous improvement, while upholding Agile practices and quality