Volley · 7 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $228K/yr
5+ years expVolley is the leading developer of AI-powered games for various platforms, and they are seeking their first Data Engineer to build a robust data infrastructure. The role involves owning end-to-end data pipelines and establishing reliability standards to enhance marketing efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Casual GamesDigital EntertainmentGamingMedia and EntertainmentPodcastSpeech Recognition
Responsibilities
Build and own end-to-end data pipelines, including attribution and third-party enriched data sources (ingestion → orchestration → warehouse → consumption)
Establish production-grade reliability standards: monitoring, alerting, SLAs, observability, runbooks, and incident response
Design scalable patterns for handling late/out-of-order data, backfills, historical consistency, and data quality
Implement environment separation (dev/stage/prod), CI/CD for pipelines, and data contracts/validation frameworks
Collaborate with Data, Growth, and Engineering teams to define data requirements and enable confident decision-making
Lay the groundwork for unified attribution and incrementality frameworks that drive marketing spend optimization
Turn today's brittle, ad-hoc pipelines into production-grade systems that increase velocity and reduce fire drills
Qualification
Required
5+ years of data engineering experience with a proven track record of building reliable production pipelines
Deep expertise with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster) including scheduling, retries, alerting, and SLAs
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building ELT/ETL pipelines at scale
Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
Deploying and operating pipelines in cloud (IAM, networking basics, secrets, CI/CD)
Track record of improving data reliability: handling schema drift, late data, backfills, and operational incidents
Experience making data production-ready with proper monitoring, documentation, and ownership
Preferred
Experience with marketing attribution or growth analytics pipelines
Background in analytics engineering (dbt, SQLMesh, Dataform) or strong understanding of data consumer needs
Gaming or entertainment industry experience
Early-stage startup experience building with limited resources
Familiarity with observability tools
Benefits
Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Volley, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k!
We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model.
We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days.
Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents.
We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
Company
Volley
Volley builds voice-controlled entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and smartphones.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$107.27MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersAdvancit CapitalY Combinator
2024-07-09Series C· $55M
2021-12-30Series B· $37M
2021-01-10Series B
Leadership Team
Max Child
Co-Founder & CEO
James Wilsterman
Co-Founder & CTO
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