Senior Data Platform Engineer

Summary

Join GameChanger, a remote-first tech company focused on youth sports, as a Senior Data Platform Engineer. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining scalable data platforms, improving existing systems, collaborating with data producers and consumers, ensuring system security, and sharing your knowledge. This role requires 5+ years of software development experience, expertise in Python and SQL, and experience with technologies like Airflow, Docker, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, and Git version control. GameChanger offers a competitive compensation package, including a remote work option, unlimited vacation, paid volunteer opportunities, technology stipend, WFH stipend, learning stipend, monthly wellness stipends, full health benefits, retirement savings, life insurance, disability leave, company-paid parental leave, family building benefits, and a DICK'S Sporting Goods teammate discount.

Requirements

• You consider yourself a specialized software engineer and follow SE best practices
• You're well versed in OOP principles and know how and when to apply them to data engineering
• 5+ years of software development experience as a data or backend engineer
• Expertise in Python and SQL for processing data
• Experience in Airflow, Docker, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, or Git version control / GHA cicd
• Experience creating detailed technical design documents
• Motivated to help others learn and improve themselves as engineers

Responsibilities

• Your primary responsibility will be to build. You'll be developing and maintaining scalable and efficient data platforms serving analytics needs across the organization
• You'll look for opportunities to improve existing systems' performance, observability, reliability, and scalability
• Identify new infrastructure and software patterns to elevate systems for the next magnitude of scale
• Collaborate with data producers and consumers across the organization to improve efficiency for their work
• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance
• Share your knowledge through design docs, technical documentation, code reviews, and mentoring

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny
• DICK’S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount