Staff Data Engineer - Real-Time Racing Data Architect

Generalmotors; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Staff Data Engineer to set technical direction for Motorsports data initiatives, owning cross‑team data platforms, real‑time ingestion, telemetry, and data quality, while collaborating with engineers, data science, platform, product, and racing stakeholders to deliver durable outcomes.

This expert contributor role requires independent judgment, strong programming in Python/Java/Scala, and mentoring abilities to establish standards and drive reliability across race-day

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms.
• Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex cross-team solutions.
• Strong programming in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience designing streaming and batch data pipelines at production scale.
• Knowledge of data modeling, schema evolution, observability, testing, deployment.
• Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems and make decisions with broad business and technical implications.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and target-state architecture for cross-system data platforms.
• Lead large initiatives across multiple teams, disciplines, technologies, and stakeholder needs.
• Design scalable real-time ingestion, telemetry, event and session data, data quality, and analytical products.
• Exercise independent judgment to analyze complex problems and make durable technical decisions.
• Establish and own measurable technical and operational outcomes, including reliability and data quality.
• Develop standards, policies, methods, and reusable patterns for schemas, data contracts, observability, testing, deployment, security, and recovery.
• Lead technical planning and risk management for roadmap and race-critical work.
• Mentor engineers and guide design reviews across the organization.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Python/Java/Scala

Streaming pipelines

Data modeling

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

General Motors seeks a Staff Data Engineer to set technical direction for Motorsports data initiatives, owning cross‑team data platforms, real‑time ingestion, telemetry, and data quality, while collaborating with engineers, data science, platform, product, and racing stakeholders to deliver durable outcomes.

This expert contributor role requires independent judgment, strong programming in Python/Java/Scala, and mentoring abilities to establish standards and drive reliability across race-day