Senior Data Engineer - GM Motorsports

Senior Data Engineer - GM Motorsports page is loaded## Senior Data Engineer - GM Motorsportsremote type: Hybridlocations: Concord, North Carolina, United States of America: Austin, Texas, United States of Americatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR-202605615**Job Description**## **The Role**We are seeking a **Senior Data Engineer** to join our **Motorsports Data Engineering team**, building next-generation data platforms that power high-performance racing programs across Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, and beyond.This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, real-time and batch data pipelines that ingest high-frequency telemetry, simulation, wind tunnel, and trackside data into our enterprise data platform. You will work at the intersection of cloud architecture, streaming systems, and performance analytics — enabling engineers, strategists, 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 lakehouse implementations, and infrastructure-as-code deployments. You will collaborate cross-functionally with race engineering, software development, operations, and external technical partners to ensure resilient, secure, and high-performance data delivery across environments.This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep technical expertise, architectural thinking, and a strong sense of ownership.## **What You’ll Do*** 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.## **Your Skills & Abilities (Required 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.## **What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)*** Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline.* Self-starter and quick learner who understands and can adapt to existing software applications.* Previous IT **experience within motorsports**.* Experience working with streaming telemetry or timing-based metrics.GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. 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