Hybrid Senior Data Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Data Engineer at Arkadium, building scalable data pipelines and evolving data architecture. Collaborating with analytics and product teams for reliable data platforms.

Responsibilities

  • **What You’ll Do**
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, end-to-end data pipelines handling billions of events across web games and platforms
  • Lead the evolution of our data architecture, ensuring it supports growth, performance, and cost efficiency
  • Optimize existing infrastructure by identifying inefficiencies, reducing compute and storage costs, and introducing smarter data lifecycle management
  • Own data ingestion patterns (batch and streaming), ensuring reliability, observability, and data quality at scale
  • Partner with Analytics and Product teams to ensure data models and pipelines support fast, self-serve insights and experimentation
  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies and tools where they provide clear scalability or cost advantages
  • Establish engineering standards, documentation, and best practices for data engineering across the organization
  • Act as a technical mentor to other data engineers and contribute to raising the overall data engineering bar

Requirements

  • **What We’re Looking For**
  • 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Backend/Data Platform roles
  • Strong experience designing and operating large-scale data systems in production
  • Experience migrating data stacks to more cost-efficient architectures
  • Deep knowledge of modern data architectures (data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, event-driven systems)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and a strong understanding of cost optimization strategies
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong proficiency in Python
  • Experience with Apache Airflow
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning at scale
  • Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic, incremental delivery
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • **Nice to Have**
  • Experience in gaming, ad-tech, or other high-volume event-driven environments
  • Familiarity with real-time analytics, experimentation platforms, or ML data pipelines
  • Experience owning or influencing platform-level data roadmaps

Benefits

  • **We offer: **
  • Competitive compensation with structured performance and career development check-ins
  • Health insurance
  • Additional budget for conferences you are interested in
  • Personal development budget to fuel your passions and desire to learn (Arkadians are taking classes in not only Excel and leadership, but also interior design and even swimming!)
  • Time off from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day so we can all enjoy the holidays
  • A unique culture of transparency, true teamwork and fun
  • Summer Fridays: Fridays off throughout the Summer to have more fun in the sun!

Job title

Senior Data Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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