Staff Data Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
This role is for a Staff Data Engineer passionate about creating amazing user experiences with the latest technologies. You will be an excellent communicator, translating business needs into technical requirements. The team values problem-solving, experimentation, and continuous learning, fostering a sociable and fun environment. They are passionate about games and obsessed with delivering the best player experience, while also valuing work-life balance.
Must have:
- Partner with senior engineers, architects and product owners to build scalable data pipelines and services.
- Work with the product team to understand business requirements and translate them into development/design tasks.
- Be a role model in engineering best practices and design/coding standards.
- Choose the right technology stack to align with use cases and scalability.
- Collaborate with other team members across different teams.
- Provide technical directions and mentor other engineers.
Good to have:
- Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience in building a data warehouse and data lake
- Knowledge of advertising platforms
11 skills required
Job Details
If you want to create amazing user experiences using the latest technologies, then this is the right job for you. You're an excellent communicator, happy to work with people from several different business units. You can translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation. We are problem solvers, constantly reviewing how and why we do things and learning from each other. We are experimental, trying out new tech and ideas and willing to take risks to drive the entire industry forward. We are sociable and fun, and we like to hang out together. We are passionate, some might even say quirky, and while we love what we do, our lives are about more than work. We love games, and are obsessed with creating the best player experience.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers, architects and product owners to build scalable data pipelines and services.
- Work with the product team to understand the business requirements and translate them into the development/design tasks.
- Be a role model in engineering best practices and design/coding standards.
- Choose the right technology stack to align with the use cases and scalability.
- Collaborate with the other team members across different teams.
- Provide technical directions and mentor other engineers.
Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software design and development.
- Advance level expertise in Java and/or Python Development.
- 2+ years of experience in working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.
- 2+ years of experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.
- Experience with schema design and data modeling.
- Strong understanding of large-scale distributed data processing.
- Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).
- Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience in building a data warehouse and data lake.
- Knowledge of advertising platforms.
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About The Company
We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players. Who we areKing is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company. Our passionMaking great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead.
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