Senior Data Platform Engineer building scalable data platforms for Mistplay, a mobile gaming loyalty app. Owning ingestion, lakehouse, pipelines, observability, and low-latency data access.
Responsibilities
Report to the Director of Data Platform
Build and operate core systems enabling reliable, scalable, high-velocity data access and analytics across Mistplay
Own significant data platform components and contribute to technical direction
Build and maintain scalable ingestion systems for batch and streaming data sources
Implement schema evolution, data contracts, and end-to-end lineage
Contribute to compute, performance, and cost optimization
Implement and evolve data warehouse, lakehouse, or hybrid analytical platforms
Build and maintain transformation pipelines using tools such as dbt and Spark
Implement orchestration, dependency management, data quality contracts, and testing frameworks
Implement low-latency data access systems using caching, materialization, and API strategies
Contribute to SLAs for data freshness, consistency, and query performance
Implement data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and freshness checks
Participate in incident response and postmortems for data reliability
Improve data discoverability, ownership, documentation, and self-service access
Evaluate and integrate platform components such as Spark, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, and data catalogs
Contribute to migrations and platform improvements with minimal downstream disruption
Partner with Data Science, ML Platform, and Backend to reduce data latency, increase analytical throughput, and improve data trust
Requirements
7–8+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms
Proven ownership of components within large-scale systems supporting real-time or near-real-time data access and analytical workloads
Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, or Go
Experience building and evolving distributed data systems with high reliability, maintainability, and rigorous engineering standards
Solid expertise in modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures, including Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Delta Lake, or Iceberg
Strong experience designing and operating batch and streaming data pipelines
Understanding of streaming systems such as Kafka and Flink, and batch frameworks such as Spark and dbt
Experience with data modeling, transformation frameworks, and testing practices
Operational rigor with metrics, logs, data quality alerts, SLOs, cost optimization, and incident response
Participation in design reviews and architectural discussions
Experience mentoring teammates and owning complex platform components
Ability to collaborate across Data Science, ML Platform, Analytics, DevOps, and Backend
Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and translate requirements into executable platform work
Benefits
Team lunches
Game nights
Company-wide events
Virtual and in-person perks and events
Growth-oriented work culture
Opportunities to share ideas, push boundaries, take calculated risks, and bring visions to life
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