Senior software engineer building General Motors’ vehicle data platform across ECUs and cloud. Developing control, data, logging, and SDK software for connected vehicles.
About the role
- Senior Data Engineer improving General Motors vehicle data pipelines, monitoring, and observability. Supporting reliable fleet software operations across Oshawa and Markham hybrid offices.
Responsibilities
- Define technical requirements, metrics, acceptance criteria, monitoring needs, and operational response paths
- Design, execute, and refine scalable data pipelines, automated workflows, monitoring dashboards, system alerts, analytics queries, testing frameworks, and governance standards
- Monitor vehicle data campaigns, package propagation, and eligible vehicle populations across operational systems
- Lead and support data investigations to ensure accurate data capture and high data quality/integrity
- Create logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts that enhance operational observability and fleet software behaviour
- Use data from multiple systems to understand vehicle lifecycle states, campaign status, package delivery, and operational outcomes
- Define requirements and acceptance criteria for external and dependent teams; document data flows, data lineage, operating procedures, and support guidance
- Communicate technical findings, risks, limitations, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
- Contribute reusable patterns, engineering best practices, design guidance, and mentoring
- Deliver data engineering and observability capabilities with acceptance criteria, validation evidence, and production-support plans
- Improve visibility into vehicle data campaigns, package propagation, vehicle populations, and operational system health
- Support data-related production investigations and resolutions
- Improve reliability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost of data operations and observability solutions
- Reduce manual effort, speed issue investigation, improve launch readiness, and support earlier risk mitigation
- Strengthen engineering governance through documented definitions, data quality checks, lineage, testing, and repeatable operating practices
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building, deploying, or supporting software, data engineering, platform, or observability solutions
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered
- Hands-on experience building and optimizing end-to-end data pipelines in Databricks, including deployment of DBX applications and workflows
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with large and complex datasets, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, or comparable data platforms
- Strong scripting and programming skills for automation, data processing, integration, validation, and production workflows, including Python and Bash/Shell
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, or Databricks Asset Bundles
- Ability to drive software engineering best practices across development, testing, deployment, documentation, observability, and production support
- Ability to work with vehicle-level and population-level data
- Experience building operational dashboards, alerting, logging, monitoring, or decision-support solutions
- Ability to lead technical work across teams and collaborate with partners, customers, and dependent teams
- Experience participating in design discussions, code reviews, technical planning, knowledge sharing, or mentoring
- Positive contributor who takes ownership, communicates clearly, supports team development, and helps build a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
Benefits
- Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
- Life insurance plans for you and your family
- Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family
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