Staff Data Engineer, Vehicle Telematics

e systems. This technical leadership role requires a passion for quality, efficiency, and reliability. As a staff engineer, you'll lead and build the platform to enable thousands of use cases that require telematics data. You will play a key role in our team's success, supporting hundreds of internal consumers and enhancing the experience for millions of retail and fleet customers. This is a high-visibility role!

What You'll Do

• Develop a scalable data platform to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity

• Develop and maintain data pipelines to ingest, process, curate, and store large volumes of data using Spark, Kafka, Event Hub, Azure Data Lake Storage, or similar technologies

• Support the infrastructure required for optimal ingestion, transformation, and storing of data

• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to support the needs of advanced ML development

• Design and implement rigorous data observability, validation, governance, and quality checks

• Defines and leads corporate software strategy for new technology, highly complex features, or significant enhancements for current, new, or major programs.

• Provide, technical leadership to execution teams for development and integration.

• Leads comprehensive design analysis of design solution.

• Lead integration and verification testing f an integrated software build.

• Stays abreast of new technology and competitive products and defines GM direction.

• Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community.

• Performs as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for one or more platform or application components.

• Actively participates in hiring, development of technical questionnaires, resume reviews and performs interviews

• Participates in project eligible for patent application

• Visibility: across Infotainment teams and sites

• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Mentor and support junior engineers by providing guidance, coaching and educational opportunities

• Simplify, simplify, simplify... and document your work!

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering including Python or Scala, SQL, and relational/non-relational data storage

• 5+ years of experience in distributed, petabyte-scale data processing using Spark as well as container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes

• Expert at performance tuning strategies such as partitioning, clustering, caching, and various other serialization techniques

• Expert at infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD best practices

• Strong background in data architecture and modeling techniques to optimize for data consumption patterns

• Proven cloud experience and strong familiarity with at least one cloud platform (Microsoft Azure - preferred, AWS, GCP)

• Excellent teamwork and leadership skills to collaborate and influence across product, program, and engineering

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Strong background in data governance, metadata management, and/or data quality/observability

• Knowledge in schema design and data contracts

• Experience in processing and storing various file formats, including video, audio, and image

• Experience with tools such as Databricks or Snowflake - this is where the vast majority of our downstream consumers live

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

Compensation:

• The expected base compensation for this role is: $165,000 - $253,200. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

• Benefits : GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

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