About the job

SummaryBy Outscal

Experienced Data Engineer to build and maintain data ecosystem, optimize pipelines, work with analysts, and ensure data reliability.
PeopleFun is an award-winning creator of mobile games for players across the globe. We are part of AppLovin, a publicly traded company, with world-class projects, resources, and infrastructure. PeopleFun is a Dallas-based game studio founded and led by game industry veterans, where game developers thrive on collaboration, creativity, teamwork, and fun. Our games are played by over 25 million players each month, and we have a number of exciting mobile games in development to fuel the future growth of PeopleFun.

We believe in bringing People together through Fun by creating the best in class social features and communities in our games that enables our players to engage deeply with other players. Secondly we endeavor to bring our studio teammates together by creating the very best game teams that foster healthy collaboration, incredible productivity, and life-long professional relationships.

Candidates who reside or will reside in the following locations are eligible for this role: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington State.

Job Summary
PeopleFun is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to contribute to the building and maintenance of our data ecosystem.  This person will work on a small team of other data engineers to design flexible and scalable solutions, in addition to supporting the needs of multiple live and developing games. This person should have strong technical skills, experience in applying engineering best practices, and comfort diving into unfamiliar data platforms and products as needed.

Responsibilities

    • Create and maintain data pipelines connecting a variety of sources to BigQuery
    • Optimize data jobs for cost, scalability, and performance
    • Work with product analysts to transform their requirements into accurate data models
    • Collaborate with central platform team to anticipate data support for new features
    • Enhance monitoring on data quality and systems to ensure data trust 
    • Handle live ops to ensure data reliability
    • Maintain health of our Cloud Composer instances, adjusting configurations as needed
    • Provide code reviews and technical guidance to the rest of the team and analysts
    • Improve deployment testing practices to increase our team’s efficiency and accuracy
    • Use your experience and curiosity around data advancements to proactively suggest improvements to our ecosystem

Requirements

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Data Science, or other related fields with a focus on engineering
    • 6+ years of professional experience in the data engineering field
    • Extensive experience in SQL and Python (BigQuery preferred)
    • Extensive experience in developing and maintaining ETL processes that are robust, scalable, and flexible
    • Extensive experience in validating and debugging to ensure high quality data
    • Experience working with external data providers/sources via API, raw data drops, and other protocols
    • Experience maintaining the health of a managed Airflow service or similar
    • Experience designing, monitoring, and scaling high volume event-based pipelines

PeopleFun provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this [CA based or North America based] position is $140,000-$190,000. Base compensation at PeopleFun is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and other benefits.

Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
Performance Bonuses
401K Match Policy
Flexible PTO Policy
Wellness Stipend
Free Lunch each Friday
Generous Parental Leave & Family-Friendly Culture
Annual Credits for Professional Development & In-App Purchases 

PeopleFun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant here.
$140.0K - $190.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$165.0K/yr avg.
United States

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