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Staff Software Engineer (Data) - Activision Blizzard Media

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Staff Software Engineer (Data)

Your Role Within the Kingdom

As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll lead the creation and refinement of essential data models driving ad engagement and monetization, ensuring our ad delivery systems' efficiency and effectiveness. Your work will leverage data for strategic decision-making, maintaining our competitive edge. Collaborating with product teams, data science experts, and leadership, you'll play a key role in strategic initiatives and operational optimization, enhancing our advertising success. Your role involves close collaboration with skilled engineers, influencing system design and architecture, and fostering a culture of innovation. This position demands strong leadership, accountability, a drive for innovation, and a commitment to continuous learning, positioning you as a pivotal force in our technological advancement and maintaining our leadership in the digital advertising space.

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.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.