Senior Data Engineer (Ad networks - Core)
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Data Engineer at Voodoo's Ad-Network Team, you'll build and maintain robust data pipelines for their lakehouse. You'll develop core data engineering tools (monitoring, orchestration, data modeling, security) and own projects from initial discussions to release. This involves feature estimation, architecture design, and benchmarking new technologies. You'll collaborate with infrastructure teams and work in an agile environment with back-end development, data science, mobile game, and app teams. The role focuses on optimizing advertising in a real-time bidding environment, directly monetizing Voodoo's inventory with advertising partners.
Must have:
- 5+ years Data Engineering experience
- Expertise in Spark (Kubernetes), Iceberg
- Deep AWS knowledge (EC2, S3, EMR, Lambda)
- Airflow (preferably MWAA) experience
- Python/Java programming skills
- Experience with large-scale data systems
10 skills required
Job Details
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
Team
The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the impressive growth of their gaming and consumer apps which allow Voodoo to stay at the forefront of the mobile industry.
Within the Data team, you’ll join the Ad-Network Team which is an autonomous squad of around 30 people. The team is composed of top-tier software engineers, infrastructure engineers, data engineers, mobile engineers, and data scientists (among which 3 Kaggle Masters). The goal of this team is to provide a way for Voodoo to monetize our inventory directly with advertising partners, and relies on advanced technological solutions to optimize advertising in a real-time bidding environment. It is a strategic topic with significant impact on the business.
Role
- Build and maintain robust data pipelines around our lakehouse to align with ever-evolving business needs, ensuring optimal architecture support;
- Develop the core data engineering tools (monitoring, orchestration, data modeling, security) that support downstream team;
- Take ownership of projects from initial discussions to release, including feature estimation & scoping, architecture design, and benchmarking of new technologies;
- Work closely with infrastructure teams as a Data Ops to optimize our use of cloud technologies;
- Work in a very agile environment with a fast decision process, having the opportunity to collaborate directly with people working on back-end development, data science, mobile games, broad audience mobile apps, product & marketing.
Profile (Must have)
- 5/6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or another similar role
- Proven experience in complex data-intensive project(s), with a deep understand of the architecture and challenges (support)
- Strong Expertise in Big Data Frameworks: Spark (especially on Kubernetes), Iceberg for Lakehouse management
- Cloud Infrastructure: Deep AWS knowledge (EC2, S3, EMR, Lambda, etc.)
- Data Pipeline Orchestration: Airflow (preferably MWAA)
- Programming Skills: Python / Java
- Scalability Experience: Designing distributed data systems to handle large data volume (partitioning, replication, transactions, consistency/consensus)
- Data Modeling & Storage Optimization: Schema design for large-scale data and optimizing Iceberg tables
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About The Company
Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.
The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.
Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join.
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