Staff Software Engineer (Data) - Activision Blizzard Media
King - San Francisco, CA
posted 19 days ago
About the position
Embrace the pivotal role of a Staff Software Engineer within our Data Platforms team, where your expertise will become the backbone of our ground breaking analytics and data processing capabilities. In this role, you will architect and lead dynamic data solutions, ensuring a robust infrastructure that supports our critical initiatives. Your work with multi-functional teams-including Product Management, Data Science, and various technology departments-will not only bolster our operations but also shape the future of our digital advertising success. Within the first year, your vision will have championed a culture of innovation with measurable achievements in system optimization and performance improvements. You will be recognized for groundbreaking sophisticated, scalable data systems that elevate our market position and set new standards for excellence. Join us and become part of an ambitious journey at a company that celebrates creativity, values your growth, and is determined to redefine the digital frontier. Your leadership will not just influence our trajectory but catapult us there.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers, architects, and product owners to build scalable data pipelines and services.
- Work with the product team to understand the business requirements and translate them into the development/design tasks.
- Be a role model in engineering proven techniques and design/coding standards.
- Choose the right technology stack to align with the use cases and scalability.
- Collaborate across different teams.
- Provide technical directions and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software design and development.
- Crafting large scale distributed systems and data processing experience.
- Advanced level expertise in Java Development and System Design.
- 2+ years experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.
- 2+ years of experience in NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.
- Experience with schema design and data modeling.
- Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).
- Working knowledge with distributed messaging systems like Kafka/Pub-sub/Service Bus.
- Solid understanding and experience working with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.
- Ability to communicate and articulate thought process effectively with the other team members.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience in ML-Infra
- 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
- Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job.
