WBPlay – a team within Turbine that is responsible for delivering key technology platforms that support games across WB – is seeking a Senior Big Data Engineer to provide hands on development within our Core Analytics Platform team. As a key contributor reporting directly to the Director of Analytics Platform Development, this individual will work closely with developers and dev-ops engineers across multiple teams to build and operate a best-in-class game analytics platform.
The successful candidate will participate in software development and dev-ops projects, using Agile methodologies, to build scalable, reliable technologies and infrastructure for our cross-game data analytics platform. This big data platform powers analytics for WB’s games across multiple networks, devices and operating environments, including Xbox One, PS4, IOS, and Android. This is a role combining proven technical skills in various Big Data ecosystems, with a strong focus on open-source (Apache) software and cloud (AWS) infrastructure.
Our ideal candidate is fluent in several big data technologies – including Hadoop, Spark, MPP databases, and NoSQL databases – and has deep experience in implementation of complex distributed computing environments which ingest, process, and surface hundreds of terabytes of data from dozens of sources, in near real time, for analysis by data scientists and other stakeholders.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for the building, deployment, and maintenance of mission critical analytics solutions that process data quickly at big data scales
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Contributes design, code, configurations, and documentation for components that manage data ingestion, real time streaming, batch processing, data extraction, transformation, and loading across multiple game franchises.
Owns one or more key components of the infrastructure and works to continually improve it, identifying gaps and improving the platform’s quality, robustness, maintainability, and speed.
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Cross-trains other team members on technologies being developed, while also continuously learning new technologies from other team members.
Interacts with engineering teams across WB and ensures that solutions meet customer requirements in terms of functionality, performance, availability, scalability, and reliability.
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Performs development, QA, and dev-ops roles as needed to ensure total end to end responsibility of solutions.
Works directly with business analysts and data scientists to understand and support their usecases
