Senior Data Engineer

July 22

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Underdog Fantasy

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Gaming • Sports • B2C

Underdog Fantasy is a company specializing in fantasy sports and sports betting. Despite the technical issue mentioned in the text, it provides a platform where users can engage in fantasy sports contests, draft teams, and potentially win prizes based on the performance of real-world athletes. The company's focus is on providing a fun and competitive experience for sports fans who want to test their skills and luck in fantasy leagues and sports-related betting.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• You’ll be developing data pipelines and maintaining production quality datasets that support Underdog’s analytics, data science, and marketing teams • Design, build, and optimize scalable data platform infrastructure to support batch and real-time data processing and storage in the cloud • Collaborate with analytics, data scientists, engineers, and other business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of the pipelines and platforms • Perform validation and build data quality checks on production datasets and ensure there are minimal data quality issues • Communicate continuously about progress, blockers, and resolution steps to all relevant stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building scalable data pipelines in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • 3+ years of experience using dbt, Flink, or Spark for data transformations and BI tools such as Sigma or Looker • Advanced proficiency with Python and SQL • Hands-on experience with streaming data infrastructure such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, GCP Datastream or AWS Kinesis • Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK) • Strong ownership mindset; you’re focused on delivering results in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment • A proactive problem solver who finds and implements opportunities to improve systems and processes • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • A $500 home office allowance • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents