Staff Software Engineer Data

Job Description

Work Arrangement:
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Sunnyvale or Mountain View CA three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Role

General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Data to provide technical leadership and architectural direction across engineering pillars that support GM Commerce. This role will be responsible for defining influencing and driving the long-term technical vision of our platform related to data to ensure scalability performance and innovation.

As a senior technical leader you will partner with engineering managers other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to establish the technical bar enable the adoption of modern engineering practices and deliver high-quality customer-focused solutions. You will be expected to provide architectural guidance conduct design/code reviews and mentor engineering talent across multiple teams.

What Youll Do

Define and evolve Data Model Schema for various entities in eCommerce systems specially for Digital and Physical Item

Optimize data flow and ETL processes across different systems

Define data governance compliance and data integrity across various systems

Establish methodology to maintain data quality

Performance tuning of SQL queries and ETL processes

Drive consistent adoption of modern engineering practices ensuring solutions are secure scalable and resilient.

Guide cloud-native architecture patterns leveraging Java React TypeScript and modern AI/ML technologies.

Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to engineering managers and staff engineers across all pillars.

Serve as a trusted advisor for critical design decisions technology adoption and integration strategies.

Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical strategies with long-term business outcomes.

Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD pipelines observability performance optimization and automation.

Ensure adherence to coding standards design patterns and maintainable architecture across diverse teams.

Drive modernization initiatives such as legacy migrations and adoption of containerized cloud-native approaches.

Mentor and grow senior technical talent raising overall engineering maturity.

Foster alignment and collaboration across globally distributed engineering organizations.

Influence leadership beyond engineering by advocating for innovation technical investments and platform scalability.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field.

7 years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a principal staff or architect-level role.

Extensive experience in architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

Proficiency in Data Technologies RDBMS noSQL Kafka Stream processing Spark Python BASH.

Experience in one of the JVM languages Java / Kotlin SpringBoot.

Proven success designing and scaling distributed cloud-native systems and experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure AWS GCP.

Strong understanding of security observability performance and high-availability architectures.

Demonstrated ability to influence at the organizational level not just at the team level.

Experience guiding multiple product areas or platforms within a large-scale multi-pillar environment.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work.

effectively with both engineers and executives. A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred

Qualifications)

Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field.

10 years of software engineering experience.

Experience launching microservice eCommerce features or platforms.

Hands-on experience with ETL data model observability with Datadog.

Experience in Auto Industry and Item catalog.

Knowledge of international market in commerce domain is a big Plus.

About GM

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