Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Scopely is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our Playgami Data Platform team.

At Scopely we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing publishing and innovating the mobile games industry connecting millions of people worldwide daily.

Playgami builds technology for game teams across Scopely. Our Data Platform provides the shared foundation that enables teams to use data safely and reliably at scale supporting 15 games and 2000 active users across Scopely and processing more than 60TB of data per day.

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer you will build and improve the shared infrastructure tooling and services that power data and analytics teams across Scopely.

You will investigate platform needs evaluate technical tradeoffs and turn agreed priorities into tested code and reusable infrastructure. Working closely with data and analytics teams Security and Governance you will take platform improvements from technical design through deployment and operation.

Your main responsibility will be to improve the security reliability scalability and efficiency of our Data Platform while making it easier for teams to build and operate their data workloads.

You will lead the technical design and delivery of platform improvements making informed tradeoffs between reliability security scalability and cost as part of a shared team roadmap.

• Build and operate shared GCP and BigQuery infrastructure using Terraform automated checks and CI/CD.
• Build scalable self-service platform capabilities that enable data teams to develop deploy and operate workloads with less manual support.
• Improve user and service account access ensuring least-privilege principles and dependable approval review and revocation processes.
• Translate Security and Governance requirements into practical controls for sensitive data and data sharing.
• Improve Airflow and Cloud Composer reliability through troubleshooting staged upgrades and tested recovery processes.
• Improve cloud data platform performance and cost efficiency using workload and capacity insights.
• Build actionable monitoring and alerts investigate incidents and implement improvements to prevent recurring failures.
• Partner with teams to understand their needs investigate platform challenges evaluate potential solutions and help shape the technical roadmap.
• Make platform workflows easier to adopt and operate through documentation runbooks and mentoring.
• Provide infrastructure access controls and shared tooling that help teams use data safely and reliably at scale.

• Experience designing deploying and operating production cloud or data platforms including safe releases and recovery.
• Hands-on experience with GCP BigQuery IAM service accounts and Cloud Storage or strong equivalent cloud experience.
• Experience authoring Terraform and CI/CD workflows testing infrastructure changes and resolving drift.
• Experience with Python for reusable automation and SQL for investigating data and workload behavior.
• Experience implementing and validating least-privilege access sensitive data controls and audit logging.
• Experience operating Airflow Cloud Composer Dagster or a similar workflow orchestrator.
• Demonstrated experience reducing manual work or improving platform reliability workload performance or cloud costs.
• Strong English communication skills and experience collaborating with engineering security and data teams.

• Experience with BigQuery reservations capacity management query optimization and cost attribution.
• Experience with Cloud Composer migrations or upgrades multi-environment orchestration and recovery testing.
• Experience with Workload Identity Federation short-lived credentials access approval integrations or tools such as Britive and Lumos.
• Experience with data classification column-level controls masking controlled sharing or automated discovery of sensitive data.
• Experience automating and operating Looker dbt Fivetran or Cube as shared platform services.
• Experience supporting automated data workloads including access controls monitoring and cost limits.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools for platform automation troubleshooting or documentation with appropriate testing and review.

You do not need experience with every tool listed. We value production ownership sound engineering judgement and the ability to learn. Relevant experience can come from data platform cloud infrastructure software engineering DevOps or site reliability roles.

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Scopely Explore games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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