Lead Data Engineer

About the company and team

Working arrangement

• The role offers a flexible hybrid arrangement, with most time spent remotely unless the employee prefers the office.
• Office attendance is expected for key team meetings, collaboration sessions, and business activities where in-person engagement is beneficial.

Role overview

What you'll do

• Own parts of the pipeline and drive improvements toward technical and business goals.
• Build pipeline support services, including integrations with in-game maps and video tooling.
• Integrate data collection and BI platforms to enable studio self-service.
• Collaborate with DevOps, analytics engineers, and studio business stakeholders.
• Improve data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Support existing tools and improve their quality and documentation.
• Share technical expertise with colleagues and help define platform direction.

What we're looking for

• Experience building and owning high-throughput streaming and batch data pipelines.
• Ability to write Go, or to write Python and willingness to learn Go.
• Experience building robust, scalable, and resilient services.
• Demonstrated measurable impact in current or previous roles.
• Ability to take responsibility for data quality, investigations, and remediation.
• Experience with cloud data services; the team uses AWS S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena, and AWS Glue.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI during development, including Claude Code, Codex, or other harnesses.
• Experience with near-real-time data processing, querying, and visualisation.
• Experience with Omni Analytics or a similar BI tool such as Looker or Tableau.
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees and may include criminal background checks for some roles.