Staff Data Platform Engineer
PrizePicks5 hours ago
Remote, United States or Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable batch and streaming data platform capabilities.
- Develop data catalog, lineage, automation, scaling, and security-control capabilities.
- Build low-latency services for streaming and near-real-time ingestion, processing, and model inference.
- Support model deployment, monitoring, CI/CD for data pipelines, observability, and 99.99% availability.
- Partner with Product, Backend Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams to operationalize data capabilities.
- Enable self-service pipeline development, deployment, orchestration, and data exploration for data teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering and a track record of deploying and maintaining scalable data platforms in high-traffic production environments.
- Proficiency with streaming architectures and low-latency services, including Kafka, Flink, or Pub/Sub.
- Proficiency with containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, and cluster-level management.
- Extensive experience with Spark, Flink, Kafka or Kinesis, Argo or Airflow, Polaris, OpenMetadata, Iceberg, Redis, Elasticsearch, and databases.
- Experience building full data-lifecycle platforms, data exploration environments, data storage, distributed processing systems, and data lakes.
- Expertise in Python and Go, with deep cloud-services experience; GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and GKE are preferred, with AWS equivalents accepted.
- Experience building REST APIs, managing packages, and developing libraries.
- Strong communication, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and full-development-lifecycle experience.
- Preferred experience with large-scale data-platform infrastructure, data quality, compliance, lineage, secure access controls, internal data tools, AI-assisted analytics, DFS, oddsmaking, or high-frequency trading.
Benefits
- Typical base salary range is $200,000 to $220,000.
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match and annual bonus.
- Flexible PTO, paid leave programs, 16-week paid parental leave, and disability benefits.
- Workplace flexibility, modern work schedules, company events and team outings, and a lifestyle enhancement program.
- Company-provided equipment with Windows and Mac options.
- Annual performance reviews and career-development opportunities.
- Atlanta is preferred, but qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. may be considered, including remote candidates.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkArgo CDAWSDockerElasticsearchGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPrestoPythonRedisWindows
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About PrizePicks
PrizePicks builds a skill-based daily fantasy sports platform where fans make player projections across major leagues and esports in real time. The privately held company, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Atlanta, monetizes through entry fees and payouts on its mobile and web apps. It serves users across North America and is available on iOS, Android, and the web.