Senior Data Engineer - Motorsports Real-Time Data Platform

General Motors; Concord (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors in Concord, NC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable real-time and batch data pipelines ingesting telemetry and track data into the enterprise data platform. You will work at the intersection of cloud architecture, streaming systems, and performance analytics — enabling engineers and race teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

As a senior member of the team, you will own critical components of our Kafka/Flink streaming architecture, Databricks

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Proficient in Python and or Java.
• Experience with event streaming/message broker technologies like Kafka, Event Hubs, or Confluent.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Experience deploying, maintaining, supporting containerized applications using technologies like Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies like Postgres, Mongo DB and Redis.
• Experience writing maintainable, testable, and reusable code.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Strong background in software development lifecycle.
• Experience with networking and client-server communication (REST, web sockets, gRPC, server-sent events).
• Delivering highly scalable, web-based systems, that can support high transaction volumes.

Responsibilities

• Develop data pipelines using Python, Java, and SQL among other tools and technologies.
• Update existing software and/or develop new software solutions to address a specific need or solve a particular business problem.
• Contribute to development in accordance with appropriate methodologies and application of a repeatable, systematic, and quantifiable approach.
• Identify and remediate software issues related to code quality, security, patterns, frameworks, software usability, or end user related issues.
• Develop your skills by working closely with peers to ensure code alignment with design patterns and frameworks.
• Integrate with other applications and systems.
• Automate unit and end-to-end testing of software systems within their domain, focused on software quality and maintainability.
• Provide guidance and mentoring of fellow software developers.
• Performance tuning, usability assessment, performance improvement, documentation, and ensuring high technical standards are met.
• Proficiency in build/release automation solutions.

Skills

Python

Java

Kafka / Event Hubs / Confluent

AWS / Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL / NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB, Redis)

REST / gRPC / WebSockets

Agile / SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Motors in Concord, NC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable real-time and batch data pipelines ingesting telemetry and track data into the enterprise data platform. You will work at the intersection of cloud architecture, streaming systems, and performance analytics — enabling engineers and race teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

As a senior member of the team, you will own critical components of our Kafka/Flink streaming architecture, Databricks