PrizePicks · 3 hours ago
Staff Data Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $230K/yr
7+ years expPrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America, recognized by Inc. 5000. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will develop and maintain data infrastructure projects, enhancing the Core Data Platform and collaborating with various teams to support data-driven decisions.
Fantasy SportsGamingSports
No H1B
Responsibilities
Enhance the capabilities of our existing Core Data Platform and develop new integrations with both internal and external APIs within the Data organization
Experienced in building robust real-time and batch data pipelines with a focus on data modeling, ETL/ELT best practices, and reliability
Adept at defining and driving data architecture standards to ensure scalable, governed solutions across teams
Develop and maintain advanced data pipelines and transformation logic using Python and Go, ensuring efficient and reliable data processing
Collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Science Engineers to support the needs of advanced ML development
Collaborate with Analytics Engineers to enhance data transformation processes, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and optimize team collaboration workflows Using DBT
Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure the maturity and success of the Core Data platform
Guide teams in implementing and maintaining comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and documentation practices, and coordinate with Engineering teams to ensure continuous feature availability
Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate and streamline data infrastructure deployment, ensuring scalable, consistent configurations aligned with data engineering best practices
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of data solutions, ensuring robust testing, seamless integration, and adherence to best practices in version control, automation, and quality assurance
Experienced in designing and automating data governance workflows and tool integrations across complex environments, ensuring data integrity and protection throughout the data lifecycle
Serve as a Staff Engineer within the broader PrizePicks technology organization by staying current with emerging technologies, implementing innovative solutions, and sharing knowledge and best practices with junior team members and collaborators
Ensure code is thoroughly tested, effectively integrated, and efficiently deployed, in alignment with industry best practices for version control, automation, and quality assurance
Mentor and support junior engineers by providing guidance, coaching and educational opportunities
Provide on-call support as part of a shared rotation between the Data and Analytics Engineering teams to maintain system reliability and respond to critical issues
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in a data Engineering, or data-oriented software engineering role creating and pushing end-to-end data engineering pipelines
3+ years of experience acting as technical lead and providing mentorship and feedback to junior engineers
Extensive experience building and optimizing cloud-based data streaming pipelines and infrastructure
Extensive experience exposing real-time predictive model outputs to production-grade systems leveraging large-scale distributed data processing and model training
Experience in most of the following: SQL/NoSQL databases/warehouses: Postgres, BigQuery, BigTable, Materialize, AlloyDB, etc
Replication/ELT services: Data Stream, Hevo, etc
Data Transformation services: Spark, Dataproc, etc
Scripting languages: SQL, Python, Go
Cloud platform services in GCP and analogous systems: Cloud Storage, Cloud Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes Engine etc
Data Processing and Messaging Systems: Kafka, Pulsar, Flink
Code version control: Git
Data pipeline and workflow tools: Argo, Airflow, Cloud Composer
Monitoring and Observability platforms: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog
Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager
Other platform tools such as Redis, FastAPI, and Streamlit
Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and collaboration experience with organizational technical and non-technical teams
Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Informatics, Information Systems or other quantitative field
Preferred
Experience building real-time production data engineering pipelines in a daily fantasy sports platform
Benefits
Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
401(k) plan with company match
Annual bonus
Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
Company-wide in-person events and team outings
Lifestyle enhancement program
Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development
Company
PrizePicks
PrizePicks is a mobile app platform that covers sports betting of leagues.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.85MKey Investors
Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)
2025-09-22Acquired
2021-12-01Series A
2020-07-08Seed· $0.85M
Leadership Team
Adam Wexler
Executive Chairman & Special Advisor to the CEO
Jay Deuskar
Cofounder/Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-12-13
2025-12-05
Sports Business Journal
2025-12-03
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