Lead Data Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead Data Engineer building a greenfield real-time event-streaming platform and managing warehouse datasets for an AI-native marketing platform serving game studios.

Role type

Lead Data Engineer (Greenfield Platform)

Builds

Real-time event-streaming platform on Kafka/Flink/ClickHouse and BigQuery warehouse datasets

Domain

Gaming / AI-driven analytics / Marketing technology

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Data engineering fundamentals, SQL, Python, event data modeling, cloud infrastructure, data quality/observability, technical direction, mentoring

Preferred skills

Streaming systems (Kafka/Flink), OLAP stores (ClickHouse), gaming/adtech/martech background, AI tooling fluency

Technologies

Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse, BigQuery, dbt, AWS, GCP, Python, SQL, Cursor, Claude Code

Responsibilities

Build greenfield real-time event-streaming platform, set technical direction for platform scaling, own warehouse datasets and transformations, set data quality and observability standards, conduct code review and mentor team, integrate AI into workflows and platform

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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About Immutable

Immutable is on a mission to help more games launch, grow and monetise successfully. We’re looking for a Growth SDR to help turn warm commercial interest into high-quality meetings for our Growth and Commercial teams. In this role, you’ll own the inbound reply to meeting motion. You’ll respond quickly to warm leads, prioritise the highest value conversations, handle objections, book qualified meetings, and make sure every handoff is clear, tracked and useful. You’ll also help build a cold outbound motion, using sharp writing, strong judgement and AI assisted workflows to turn the right prospec