We are presently preparing to unleash a gamechanging social casino app - in partnership with the king of mobile games....KING! We are developing and operating the first social casino app in the King portfolio, to launch Fall 2017. We are growing our team to resource this effort and seeking curious, energetic, positive, and motivated talent to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As we expand our portfolio of free-to-play apps, we're looking for a motivated and ambitious Data Engineer to join our rapidly growing studio.
We seek a Data Engineer with 2-3 years of experience to manage the pipeline of data from our products and players and into the hands of the key stakeholders and decision makers in PLAYSTUDIOS.
As a Data Engineer you’ll be responsible for enhancing and maintaining petabyte scale data warehouse and tools around it. You will do this by partnering with various cross functional teams like Product Management, Data Scientists and also fellow engineering teams. You will be responsible for streamlining the multiple data tools and sources used by our team, and for ensuring that data quality and consistency is maintained throughout. This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-class team and bring our exciting games to even more fans worldwide.
Our ideal candidate is bright, responsible, self-motivated and gets stuff done. We look for problem solvers, who can intuitively anticipate problems; look beyond immediate issues; and take initiative to improve both our software and our development infrastructure. In short, we look for people who take pride in the craft of data engineering and have proven to be great at it.
You love problem solving, visualizing data and clean data. You have a direct impact on the performance of our product and player satisfaction; your work product will be quickly visible, tested and validated.
DUTIES INCLUDE:
- Design, build and launch new data models and ETL pipelines that will make PLAYSTUDIOS more data driven
- Work with engineering , data science and product management teams to build and manage a wide variety of data sets
- Simplify and democratize access to useable data throughout the company
- Ability to work on multiple areas like Data pipeline ETL, report development with tableau, Data modeling & design, writing complex SQL queries etc.
- Design and publish custom dashboards for Product Teams and stakeholders around the company
- Create ad-hoc queries and reports for Product, User Acquisition, BI & Sr. Management
- Automate and document processes
Required
- BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering discipline, with at least 2+ years work experience
- Problem solver with excellent communication skills with ability to make sound complex decisions in a fast-paced, technical environment
- Expert knowledge in database technologies, which means excellent in SQL and a good understanding of trade-offs in building data models
- Practical programming experience in at least one of the languages such as or similar to Python, Java, Clojure etc.
- Strong experience in working with large data sets
- Experience building ETL with open source tools such as talend, Pentaho
- Very good experience in UNIX/Linux
- Capable of planning and executing on both short-term and long-term goals individually and with the team
Preferred
- Experience with AWS tools & technologies (S3, EMR, Kinesis etc)
- Passionate on various technologies including but not limited to SQL/No SQL/MPP/Graph databases etc.
- Experience with streaming data pipelines using any of Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Spark streaming etc.
- Knowledge of Statistics and/or Machine Learning Familiarity with columnar data stores
- Experience in any web framework eg: Django, to develop our custom BI dashboards
HEALTH AND OTHER BENEFITS
We pay 100% of benefit premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for our employees and 100% of your dependents’ premiums. Health benefits are effective on your date of hire.
In addition to providing core health benefits, we provide the following:
- 100% of the cost for Basic Life and Accident insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability protection
VOLUNTARY BENEFITS
Full time employees are eligible to purchase additional life and accident insurance for themselves and their dependents.