Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.
The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences.
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer in our Ads Engineering team, empowering groundbreaking mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Ads Platform.
Your role within the Kingdom
Are you excited to build impactful backend systems for Advertising using the latest technologies? Are you an excellent communicator who enjoys working with people from several different business units? Can you translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation? If you answered yes, then our Senior Data Engineer role on our ads engineering team may be the right role for you!
We are an impactful team of problem solvers that are constantly reviewing how and why we do things and learning from each other. We are experimental, trying out new tech and ideas and willing to do things differently to drive the entire industry forward. We are sociable and fun, and we like to hang out together. We are passionate, some might even say quirky, and while we love what we do, our lives are about more than work. We love games, and are obsessed with creating the best player experience!
Your role within Activision Blizzard Media
Your role involves designing and developing a highly scalable, available, and reliable Ads & Monetization platform capable of handling billions of requests daily. You collaborate with architects and fellow engineers to craft backend systems while working closely with product and peer engineering teams on cross-functional projects. In addition, you partner with DevOps engineers to ensure operational excellence and exhibit a genuine curiosity for mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Build scalable data pipelines and services.
- Understand the business requirements and translate them into the development/design tasks.
- Follow engineering best practices and design/coding standards.
- Collaborate with the other team members across different teams.
- Design and implement cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses
- Choose the right technology stack to align with those use cases with scalability.
- Develop alert & monitoring systems and procedures for faster disaster recovery.
- Provide mentorship, guidance and technical directions to other specialists and engineers
Skills to create thrills:
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience in software design and development.
- Previous experience gained working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.
- Strong in Java/Python Development and object-oriented design principles.
- Proficient SQL skills and database performance concepts.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.
- Experience with schema design and data modeling.
- Strong understanding of large-scale distributed data processing.
- Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).
- Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka
- Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.
- Ability to communicate and articulate thought process effectively with colleagues
- Ability to work independently with limited guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working experience in building data warehouses and data lakes.
- Experience working with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience in ML-Infra
- Knowledge of advertising platforms
About King
At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?
Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.
So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.
