Staff Data Engineer

Job Description

Staff Data Engineer

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, eSports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®. The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences.

We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer in our Ads Engineering team, crafting ground breaking mobile advertising technologies to build the next generation of our Ads Platform.

Responsibilities
• Design and build Data Pipelines to collect, transform, store, analyze, explore and visualize.
• Craft and build cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses
• Work with the product team to understand data sources, use cases and data models.
• Choose the right technology stack to align with those use cases with scalability.
• Collaborate with the other team members across different teams.
• Develop alert & monitoring systems and procedures for faster disaster recovery.
• Provide technical directions and mentor other specialists and engineers

Qualifications
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience in Software Development in Java or Python
• Working experience in building data warehouses and data lakes.
• 5+ years of demonstrated ability working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.
• 2+ years of experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.
• Expert level SQL skills and database performance concepts.
• Experience in relational and dimensional data modeling.
• Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).
• Understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.
• Should be able to communicate and articulate their thought process optimally with team members.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building data warehouse, data lake and data pipeline using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with large scale distributed systems with large datasets.
• Experience in distributed computing framework – Hadoop, Spark, Flink or Storm
• Experience with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of advertising platforms.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-renqk8-3-134-118-95-42 in your application.