Staff Data Engineer: Real-Time Telemetry Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to set technical direction for Motorsports data initiatives and lead architecture for real-time ingestion, telemetry, and data platforms. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional decisions, and deliver durable data solutions across teams.

The role emphasizes independent judgment, broad latitude in solving ambiguous problems, and measurable impact on race-day operations and data quality.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production software development.
• Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex, cross-team solutions.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or Scala, and production-grade data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Set target-state architecture for cross-system data platforms and products.
• Lead high-visibility initiatives across multiple teams and technologies.
• Design and implement real-time ingestion, telemetry, data quality, and analytics pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Programming languages

Streaming pipelines

Observability

Mentoring

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Databricks

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to set technical direction for Motorsports data initiatives and lead architecture for real-time ingestion, telemetry, and data platforms. You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional decisions, and deliver durable data solutions across teams.

The role emphasizes independent judgment, broad latitude in solving ambiguous problems, and measurable impact on race-day operations and data quality.