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Rockstar Games · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Andover, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Rockstar Games is a leading entertainment company creating world-class experiences. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Data Engineering to develop a game analytics platform and tools that enhance player experiences through data-driven insights.

GamingPC GamesSoftwareVideo Games

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services, with a primary focus on raw and bronze-level ingestion

Develop and operate stream–based applications responsible for real-time data transformation, enrichment, validation, and routing

Own and evolve event schemas and data contracts, including Avro schemas and Schema Registry governance

Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and performance of streaming and ingestion pipelines under heavy load

Contribute to platform-level concerns such as deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD

Participate in the design and implementation of cloud-native data infrastructure supporting real-time and batch workloads

Qualification

JavaPythonKafkaDistributed systemsEvent-driven architecturesReal-time data pipelinesAvroScalaProtobufCI/CDAutomated testingCloud-native infrastructure

Required

5+ years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in a distributed or data-intensive environment

Strong experience with Java (and/or Scala) as well as Python, in backend or data processing applications

Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka or Kafka Streams (or similar)

Experience working with event-driven architectures, including schema evolution and compatibility

Experience building real-time and/or near-real-time data pipelines at scale

Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, exactly-once/at-least-once semantics)

Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices

Preferred

Experience with Databricks, particularly for ingestion, bronze-layer processing, or structured streaming

Experience deploying and scaling applications in containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, AKS)

Experience working with artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, ProGet, Maven repositories)

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles)

Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem

Familiarity with Apache Spark

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows

Company

Rockstar Games

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Rockstar Games is a multinational video game development and publishing company that provides a wide range of games.

Founded in 1998

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.rockstargames.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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