Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join GameChanger, a remote-first tech company based in New York City, as a Senior Data Engineer to help evolve our data tooling and platform. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the company to understand their needs and build systems to unlock operational efficiencies or analytic insights.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience, preferably as a data or backend engineer
• Expertise in Python for the processing of data
• Expertise with containers and orchestration tools, preferably Airflow
• Expertise administrating Kafka on AWS and implementing patterns for producers/consumers
• Expertise with IaC tools like Terraform
• Experience with SQL and cloud data warehousing in Snowflake or BigQuery
• Familiarity with cloud computing services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills
• Drive to help others learn and improve themselves as engineers

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable, robust and efficient data platforms serving analytic and operational needs across the organization
• Architect and implement high volume, high load data pipelines
• Improve existing systems' performance, observability, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with data producers and consumers across the organization to drive efficiencies for their work
• Optimize our data pipelines for scale, identifying new infrastructure and software patterns as needed
• Debug and troubleshoot complex problems across multiple systems and services
• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance
• Share your knowledge through technical documentation, code reviews, and mentoring

Benefits

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match
• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing
• Generous parental leave