Data Engineer

Job Description

Data Engineer

PlayStation, San Diego Studio

Are you an experienced developer with a passion for games? Are you a baseball fan? Would you enjoy supporting the development efforts of games used by passionate loyalists around the world? Does a career opportunity influencing the most successful gaming platform of all time interest you?

We seek a Data Engineer to provide insights and analysis of gameplay and user behavior. Here, you will ensure necessary data is being recorded, validate and maintain a large data pipeline, mine large quantities of data, and build new data infrastructures as needed. You would be tasked to deliver actionable insights used to grow our studio culture. If this is you, please apply!

Responsibilities:
• Develop efficient and easy to read code primarily using cloud based services
• Partition and bucket large datasets for quick access
• Help scale and maintain AWS infrastructure to account for growing volume of data
• Develop highly efficient systems to retrieve, maintain and analyze in game and customer data
• Work with Data Scientists to automate and optimize code to production quality
• Perform ETL tasks and maintenance
• Maintain and test data integrity to ensure accuracy and timeliness
• Define and iterate on development of analytics infrastructure for pre-production and post-production titles

Qualifications:
• Min. 2 years' experience with large complex data sets
• Professional experience working with Python and SQL
• Big Data Experience working in AWS (ex: Glue, S3, Athena) or Azure
• Professional level interpersonal and communication skill (email, phone, face to face)
• Ability to turn difficult and complex problems into elegant and efficient solutions
• A multi-functional teammate
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution

Pluses:
• Command-line experience
• Knowledge of Data Science packages for cloud machine learning platforms
• Database management experience
• Programming in C#, C++, or other object-oriented language
• Experience validating data emission from a live product
• Understand the rules of the sport of baseball
• Passion for video games

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwn3vn-18-191-174-168-42 in your application.