Activision Blizzard Media · 2 weeks ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data) - Activision Blizzard Media
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $270K/yr
9+ years expActivision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the Western world. The Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data) role involves designing and building data pipelines, cloud-based data lakes, and collaborating with product teams to align technology with business needs.
Marketing & Advertising
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
Build and contribute to data products with focus on data Quality and data Governance
Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers in a collaborative environment
Excellent at articulating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Experienced in driving technical strategy and making impactful decisions
Qualification
Required
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, plus 9+ years of relevant professional experience (13+ years total)
Strong experience in Software Development in Java or Python
Working experience in building data warehouses and data lakes
Demonstrated ability working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc
Experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc
Expert level SQL skills and database performance concepts
Extensive 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
Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers in a collaborative environment
Excellent at articulating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Experienced in driving technical strategy and making impactful decisions
Preferred
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
Benefits
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
Company
Activision Blizzard Media
Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Brian Mulcahy
Agency Partner Lead
Brian Pomper
Agency Partnership Lead
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