[REMOTE] Data Engineer
, one of the world’s largest casual gaming platforms with over 60M monthly visitors, is looking for a (full or hybrid) remote experienced Data Engineer in Europe.
Your mission will be to handle the data pipeline from collection to cleanup and aggregation of the data of milions of users daily, making it available for analysts and the company to gain insigths from. You will report to the Head of Data and will work closely with Data & Engineering teams.
On a typical day you might:
Monitor the health of the data pipeline and solve performance issues;
Create a new intermediate table in our data lake to simplify the consumption of information;
Interact with the Data Scientists to improve the quality of the datasets they use;
Improve the data ingestion process, making it more cost-effective;
Develop and support a semantic layer for AI-driven data analyses.
Key outcomes for the role:
Within 1 month, you have a clear understanding of every step of our data pipeline (from ingestion usage in dashboards);
Within 3 months, you have spotted areas of improvements and cut costs or boosted time efficiency by 5%;
Within 6 months, you have deployed multiple changes on our data pipeline and can autonomously plan future work;
Within 12 months, you fully own our data pipeline and have successfully taken over the responsibilities from our Engineers.
What we offer:
Join the Data team alongside Data Analysts and Scientists
Work with our elite engineering team of 15+ experienced engineers
A modern tech stack on a massive scale (over 300M gameplays per month across device types from users across the globe)
A lot of responsibility and freedom. We hire only experts and trust them to deliver excellent results.
Flexible working hours and location. The results are what counts!
1-2 team weeks per year. We pay for flights and accommodation so you can have fun with the team.
The opportunity to play games and claim it's work.
Reach out if:
You want to maintain and improve the infrastructure that collects, stores, and transforms our analytics data, ensuring it stays reliable and cost-efficient (including ingestion, cleanup, summarisation and aggregation of data).
Bonus points if you have experiencei in AWS infrastructure and especially Redshift.
You can spot area of improvements in the data process and deliver results autonomously; and you know SQL very well.
You like open, efficient, and to-the-point communication and you have experience in working remotely.
You are intelligent, efficient, and organized. You have an attention to detail.
You have relevant experience working in a company which has large data lake catering to an extensive user base.
Experience in the Gaming, Media or Entertainment sector is a plus.
You’re used to leveraging AI for efficient work, without giving in on critical thinking
Please note: glaring use of GenAI technologies to fill in the screening questions will result in disqualification.
Skills
As published by recruitee · 10 questions · 5 written answers
Basics
Full name, Email, CV
Short answers (3)
- Where are you located?
- When can you start working?
- What is the salary range that you're looking for?
Pick from a list (2)
- What is your SQL level?
- Do you have a preference in terms of contract optional
Written answers (5)
- Looking at Crazygames website data collection, we records different events on various user actions, amounting to thousands of times per minute. Given that different information has a different priority, how would you design the flows from the action to the db to ensure important data is never lost? Describe the main steps, and what could go wrong along the way.
- You are managing a data lake of 100+ aggregated tables, organised as a DAG, reporting information across dimensions and metrics on various features of a product. You are being tasked of adding a new dimension at the core of the whole lake, which requires heavy restructuring and reworking of much of the code written. How do you proceed in estimating the work necessary, prioritise it, and make sure that downtime is reduced to the minimum?
- Describe the most relevant professional experience you have compared to our open role and company and what you achieved there.
- Tell us briefly what attracts you in this job opportunity optional
- What do you do outside of work? optional