Brazil
Senior Data Engineer - Platform Services
Remote (Mexico or Brazil Only) | 6+ Hour PT Overlap #2922
The Mission
As a Contract Data Engineer on this team, you will build the data pipelines and models that power out-of-game experiences across the client, mobile apps, and web properties.
The Role
- Platform Data Services: Design and optimize scalable data pipelines that support cross-portfolio player features.
- Grant vs. Spend & CAP: Lead development for the Grant vs. Spend initiative and support CAP (Content Authorization) catalog data systems.
- Collaborative Engineering: Work with backend engineers and product teams to integrate telemetry and engagement data seamlessly.
- Data Integrity: Build and maintain reusable data marts that provide high-quality, audit-ready data for platform insights.
- Security & Privacy: Ensure all data solutions adhere to global player data privacy and security standards.
The Must-Haves
- Experience: 5+ years of professional Data/Software Engineering experience.
- Core Languages: Expertise in Python and SQL is mandatory.
- Data Stack: Deep experience with PySpark, Airflow, and DBT.
- Platforms: High proficiency in Databricks and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
- System Design: Proven ability to build mission-critical data systems from the ground up, including requirement gathering and production-ready architecture.
- Mentorship: Experience guiding junior engineers and establishing high standards for code quality and documentation.
- Ability to overlap 6 hs with PST.
The "Bonus" Skills
- Transactional Data: Experience with business analytics or finance-adjacent data fields — highly relevant for Grant vs. Spend work.
- Polyglot Skills: Familiarity with Java or Scala for navigating platform backend services.
- Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Airflow for complex automation and scheduling.
- Test Strategy: Experience collaborating with software engineers on test plans for data pipelines.
Personal Traits
- Reliability-Minded: You treat data correctness and pipeline uptime as non-negotiable foundations, not afterthoughts.
- Precision-Driven: You understand that if a Grant vs. Spend pipeline fails, it creates real operational and player-experience issues — you take that seriously.
- Systems Thinker: You see how data flows across complex cross-platform environments and design with the full picture in mind.
- Ownership-Oriented: You take full responsibility for the pipelines you build — observable, maintainable, and production-grade.
- Collaborative Builder: You work closely with backend engineers and product teams to ensure integrations are seamless and well-documented.
- Pragmatic & Thorough: You balance speed with rigor, knowing when to move fast and when to slow down to get it right.