Job Description

Job Description

Hybrid: This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location (Roswell GA) three times per week, at minimum.

The Role:

General Motors uses telematics data as a cornerstone of its software-defined vehicle strategy, enhancing safety, security, and product development for an exceptional customer experience. Analytical insights from this data lead to improvements in operational efficiency, maintenance, and vehicle performance as well as address the need for intelligent (ADAS), sustainable transportation (EV). Our data storage team owns the platform that streams and stores this data from millions of vehicles around the globe.

We seek a polyglot engineer with a strong background in data and software, experienced in designing and maintaining large-scale 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
• Mentor and support junior engineers by providing guidance, coaching and educational opportunities
• Simplify, simplify, simplify… and document your work!

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's or Master'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 Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• 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

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

The salary range for this role is $ $165,000 - 253,200.00. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this 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.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an indivi d ual's protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics" include an individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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