Data Platform Engineer
Core
Designing and evolving the core architectural foundation of a global video game company's data ecosystem to support billions of player events and enable self-service data capabilities.
Role type
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Builds
Scalable data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, AWS S3) and 'Data-as-a-Service' features for game studios and business units.
Domain
Video game industry / Big Data & Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
SQL, Python, Apache Spark, AWS (S3, EKS, IAM), Snowflake or Databricks, Apache Airflow, Data Modeling (Kimball, Inmon, Data Vault)
Preferred skills
High-velocity telemetry handling, Terraform, Data observability tools, Docker/Kubernetes, Vector Databases, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM data governance
Technologies
Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Kinesis, AWS S3, Apache Spark, PySpark, Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Terraform, Monte Carlo, DataHub, Soda, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus
Responsibilities
Lead design and optimization of core data platform components; Manage and scale high-throughput streaming systems; Develop self-service data onboarding features; Optimize distributed Spark/PySpark applications; Design granular access control models for security and compliance; Ensure interoperability between disparate platforms to maintain a Single Source of Truth.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
