Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
Rockstar Games5 months ago
Base Salary
$121k - $162k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data-processing services focused on raw and bronze-level ingestion.
- Develop and operate stream-based applications for real-time data transformation, enrichment, validation, and routing.
- Own and evolve event schemas and data contracts, including Avro schemas and Schema Registry governance.
- Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and performance of streaming and ingestion pipelines under heavy load.
- Contribute to deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD.
- Help design and implement cloud-native data infrastructure for real-time and batch workloads.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in distributed or data-intensive environments.
- Strong experience with Java and/or Scala and Python in backend or data-processing applications.
- Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka, Kafka Streams, or similar technologies.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, schema evolution, and compatibility.
- Experience building real-time or near-real-time data pipelines at scale.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts including partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, and exactly-once or at-least-once semantics.
- Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices.
- Desirable experience with Databricks, Kubernetes or AKS, artifact repositories, Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, Microsoft Azure, Apache Spark, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows.
Benefits
- Full-time, in-office position based at Rockstar Games’ NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan.
- Medical, financial, and other benefits may be available.
- Potential bonus and/or equity awards may be included in total compensation.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants and employees.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games develops and publishes console and PC video games for a global consumer audience, including the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and operates ongoing online services like GTA Online. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, it is a label of Take-Two Interactive and ships premium titles across multiple platforms through retail and digital storefronts.