Staff Data Engineer
GameChanger1 day ago
Base Salary
$170k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set multi-quarter technical direction for the data platform and create execution plans for ambiguous cross-functional projects.
- Build relationships with technical and non-technical partners, advocate for platform adoption, and lead training.
- Architect and build scalable data platforms serving analytical and operational needs.
- Champion AI-assisted self-service analytics and AI-assisted software development.
- Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and scalability while identifying new infrastructure and software patterns.
- Contribute through technical documentation, code reviews, tech talks, mentoring, and new engineering standards.
- Participate in the data engineering on-call rotation and troubleshoot complex issues across systems and services.
Requirements
- 8+ years building data or backend systems, including leading technical work spanning multiple teams.
- Expertise with AI-assisted software development, Python for data pipelines and production software, and SQL with Snowflake or BigQuery.
- Experience building software systems or partnering closely with software engineering teams.
- Proficiency with containers, orchestration tools preferably Airflow, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, Kubernetes, Kafka, streaming data pipelines, and cloud services.
- Bonus experience with CDC platforms, front-end behavior tracking, MLOps platforms, or AI self-service tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication, influence without direct authority, curiosity, self-motivation, and a commitment to helping teammates learn and improve.
Benefits
- Remote work throughout the US, except specified states, or work from the Manhattan, NY office.
- Unlimited vacation, paid volunteer opportunities, and technology, work-from-home, learning, wellness, and lifestyle stipends.
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and dependent coverage.
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with an immediate company match.
- Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance plus short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Company-paid parental leave of up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family-building benefits through Progyny and a DICK'S Sporting Goods family-of-brands teammate discount.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About GameChanger
GameChanger builds mobile apps for youth sports that provide live scoring, video streaming, stats, and team communication for sports like baseball and softball. The company monetizes through subscriptions for premium features and is part of DICK'S Sporting Goods after a 2016 acquisition. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, GameChanger’s platform supports millions of hours of youth sports livestreams and highlight clips each year.