Staff Data Engineer — Real-Time Telemetry & Cloud (Remote)

General Motors; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to set technical direction for Motorsports data initiatives and lead architecture across real-time ingestion, telemetry, data quality, and cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, partner with stakeholders, and drive durable business outcomes in a remote work setup.

The role emphasizes independent judgment, cross-team collaboration, and delivering scalable data products for race-day operations with measurable reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production software development.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and develop target-state architecture for complex, cross-system data platforms.
• Lead large, high-visibility initiatives that integrate multiple teams and technologies.
• Design and implement scalable real-time ingestion, telemetry, and data quality solutions.
• Exercise independent judgment to analyze problems and make durable technical decisions.
• Establish measurable technical and operational outcomes including reliability and data quality.
• Develop standards for schemas, data contracts, observability, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and guide design reviews across the organization.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate needs into scalable data solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Python/Java/Scala

Streaming pipelines

Data modeling

Observability

Mentoring

Stakeholder influence

Communication

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 across real-time ingestion, telemetry, data quality, and cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, partner with stakeholders, and drive durable business outcomes in a remote work setup.

The role emphasizes independent judgment, cross-team collaboration, and delivering scalable data products for race-day operations with measurable reliability improvements.