Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

At EFG (ESL FACEIT Group) we create worlds beyond gameplay, where players and fans become a community. We pride ourselves in having a corporate social responsibility which is that “IT’S NOT GG, UNTIL IT’S GG FOR ALL”.

Our passion, craft, and DNA align to create and shape the world of esports, gaming tournaments, leagues, events, and holistic ecosystems through our millions of players, fans, and heroes, as well as through our people and culture.

We’re looking for a technical leader who knows that the true mark of intelligence and experience is kindness, and the responsibility to use it to level up everyone around you.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be joining a small team of Data Engineers whose mission is to design, build & evolve a world-class data platform that serves as the backbone of every decision we make at EFG. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture and the tech execution patterns of a green field ecosystem. 

Expectations

Serve as a leader in tech

• Ask all the whys, relentlessly until you know your customer needs inside-out and know you’re designing the right solution to the problems and not the other way around.
• Partner with our stakeholders and serve as an internal consultant to foster the adoption of our data platform.
• You contribute to the technical strategy of the team, and its execution through prioritization, and delivery management.
• Set high standards across documentation, testing, resiliency, monitoring, and code quality. Enforce these standards by holding your team accountable.
• You drive towards efficiencies and look for ways to simplify code, infrastructure and data models across the platform.
• Inspire, teach and guide your fellow team members; lead design sessions, be there for a code review, take ownership of operational processes.

Excel as Senior Engineer

• Write well-rounded, reusable and documented code that captures the essential nature of the solution. 
• Decompose ambiguous and open-ended problems into solutions composed of multiple tooling.
• Construct complex architectures tying multiple services and SaaS tooling together, leveraging a strong understanding of a cloud-based stack (AWS, GCP). 
• Drive towards efficiencies, lowering your cloud spend and tackling tech debt on a quarterly basis

Personify our DNA

• Exemplify the values we live by. Nurture a blameless culture. Know and care for your team members; inspire, and guide them to be the best that they can be.
• Be the heart-first, people-first tech lead everyone wants to be around because you have invested in building relationships.

Architecture

• You’ve participated in shaping the architecture of a mature data platform, designed for different consumer types, and providing quantifiable business value.
• You’ve run PoCs, planned large migrations of data and code, and participated in planning a roadmap multiple times before.

Engineering Hands-On

• You have hands-on experience in building resilient batch (Airflow, Fivetran) and streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Dataflow) data pipelines at scale (> 1 TB/day)
• You can advocate passionately for your tried-and-true best practices of CI/CD in data engineering (Github Actions, Jenkins)
• You can build and maintain your own infrastructure through IaC (Terraform); you rely on DevOps expertise when needed
• You have designed and implemented performant, reusable, and scalable data models (dbt) in cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake)
• You possess a comprehensive understanding of database design principles (star/snowflake schemas, data vault, normal forms) for effective and scalable data structures
• You preach operational procedures from data and infrastructure observability (Monte Carlo, Datadog, Prometheus), alerting and incident management (PagerDuty, incident.io)
• You know SQL & Python like the back of your hand

Tech Leadership

• You’ve served as a leader in technology in the past; you’ve made mistakes and learned from them.
• You have interacted with a large community of stakeholders before; you understand the business use cases and can tailor your communication to ICs and Senior Management.

Traits

• You like to have a good time while getting things done. When we say a “team player” we mean it - you have a crisp high-five and funny stories to tell. You have your team’s back, and the team has yours.
• You love learning new things: You know that there’s always more to learn. You’re up-to-date on new trends in data – you know who’s using what to solve various problems and are excited for the next release of your favorite tool. 
• Past experience in the Esports/Gaming/Betting/Events industry would be a great asset.

• You make the time to cheer and enjoy the ride.