Software Engineer II- Data Platform

Hybrid: San Diego

Do you want to join a team of talented engineers dedicated to enhancing the PlayStation experience for millions of users and creators? As part of our Data Platform team, you will play a key role in building cutting-edge systems that power PlayStation’s data-driven features, delivering impactful insights and enabling seamless, interactive experiences!

The Software Engineers within our Platform Engineering Group design, build, document, and deploy large-scale data platforms that optimize performance and scalability across PlayStation systems. You will work on solving complex data challenges, improving platform capabilities, and ensuring high availability, all while supporting a dynamic, interactive environment for PlayStation users.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative data platforms that scale to millions of users, collaborating across Engineering and Product teams in an agile environment. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, tools, and processes, helping to drive forward our technical and architectural goals.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, testing, and deployment of high-quality code across the data platform

• Collaborate actively with global teams across multiple time zones, ensuring alignment and continuity

• Support platform capabilities for data cataloging, analytics, and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Assist in identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing improvements with guidance from senior engineers

• Build and support services that handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data (audio, video, text, images)

• Participate in on-call rotation for production support and help troubleshoot critical issues

• Contribute to platform documentation and maintain clarity for internal consumers

• Present work in team demos and represent engineering contributions in internal discussions

• Follow best practices in testing, monitoring, and deployment to ensure platform reliability

• Continuously learn and apply new tools, patterns, and technologies in the data platform space

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed systems

• Proficient in at least one language: Scala, Java, or Python

• Experience building or maintaining cloud-based applications/services (AWS preferred, GCP is a plus)

• Exposure to event streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS and Data Ingestion

• Familiarity with distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Apache Flink

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability best practices

• Comfortable working in a globally distributed team

• Willingness to participate in production on-call rotations

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Databricks or similar unified data platforms

• Experience working with unstructured data formats such as images, video, or audio

• Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage, and metadata tools

• Experience supporting platform-scale features such as ETL frameworks, analytics services, or data quality checks

• Knowledge of GCP or multi-cloud environments

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for tackling scalability and reliability challenges

Your First 90 Days

• 30 Days: Ramp up on our tech stack, development tools, and team workflows. Deliver your first minor enhancement or bug fix and sync with global peers.

• 60 Days: Begin contributing to core platform features. Participate in code/design reviews and propose improvements.

• 90 Days: Own medium-scope features end-to-end. Engage in roadmap discussions and build strong cross-functional relationships with global stakeholders.

Sr. Director Data Platform Engineering & Operations

San Diego, CA

The Sr. Director Data Platform Engineering & Operations is a critical leadership role at SIE, responsible for driving innovation and scalability across the company’s data and AI platform ecosystem. This role oversees platforms including Data Infrastructure (Streaming, Ingestion, Warehouse, and Data Ocean), Experimentation and Audience Platforms, and Governance & Data Observability tools.

In this role, you will ensure SIE’s platforms process massive volumes of data, delivering insights that enhance Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise experiences. By enabling data-driven decisions at scale, you will drive the future of personalized gaming, efficient operations, and enterprise productivity through advanced AI and machine learning technologies.

As a strategic leader, you will define and execute the vision for SIE’s data and AI platform ecosystem, ensuring scalable solutions that support key business objectives across gaming, content creation, and enterprise operations. Reporting to the VP of Data & AI, you will lead global teams of engineers and experts to build platforms that democratize data and transform decision-making across the company.  Priority consideration will be given to candidates with proven experience in a previous or current Sr. Director level role. 

This highly cross-functional role works closely with senior leadership in engineering, product, and business to align the platform ecosystem with the organization’s strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Define the long-term vision for SIE’s Data and AI Platform ecosystem, aligning with business goals and driving value across Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise touchpoints.
• Lead the development of platforms that process large-scale, real-time data from millions of users, delivering insights to enhance gaming experiences, content creation, and enterprise productivity.
• Build scalable platforms for personalized player experiences, content creation tools, and enterprise efficiency, optimizing performance and cost-effectiveness.

Platform Development & Operations:

• Provide thought leadership in the design, architecture, and execution of the platform ecosystem, ensuring innovation and seamless integration with SIE’s global gaming services and enterprise operations.
• Ensure platforms are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability, processing billions of data points daily across Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise activities.
• Champion operational excellence by driving continuous improvements in platform cost efficiency, performance, and security to support SIE’s global user base.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with senior leaders to deliver data and AI solutions that drive value across gaming, content creation, and enterprise operations.
• Work with teams to ensure data platforms improve engagement, content creation, monetization, and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements while supporting scalable data operations.

Innovation & Efficiency:

• Lead efforts to optimize platform performance, reduce costs, and improve data accessibility across gaming and enterprise operations.
• Implement innovative solutions to scale data operations and maximize value from Player, Creator, Publisher, and Enterprise data.
• Drive AI/ML adoption to enhance gaming experiences, content discovery, operational efficiency, and enterprise workflows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

Technical Expertise:

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or related fields, with deep expertise in designing and building distributed data systems and large-scale data warehouses.
• Proven track record of architecting platforms capable of processing petabytes of data and supporting the real-time ingestion and processing of billions of data points daily across gaming and enterprise domains.
• Extensive experience in building and scaling cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data platforms, with a strong focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and cost-efficiency.
• Demonstrated success in growing and evolving data platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling business, ensuring data-driven decisions are made at all levels of the organization.
• Extensive experience with Kafka for data streaming and real-time data ingestion.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Databricks and Snowflake for scalable data engineering, analytics, and cloud data warehousing.
• Proven experience making buy vs. build decisions, assessing in-house development versus integrating third-party platforms based on cost, scalability, and business needs.
• Expertise with Data Governance tools such as Alation and Collibra for managing data catalogs, compliance, and data quality.
• Knowledge and experience with Data Observability tools to monitor data pipelines and ensure data accuracy, reliability, and transparency.
• Experience with experimentation platforms such as Optimizely, Statsig, and LaunchDarkly, with a focus on A/B testing and feature management.
• Expertise in AI/ML platforms like AWS SageMaker and Databricks MLflow for machine learning model development, deployment, and MLOps practices.

Leadership & Strategic Skills:

• Proven leadership (in a prior Sr. Director level role strongly preferred) building and leading high-performing global engineering teams, balancing short-term execution with long-term strategic growth.
• Strong strategic mindset, translating business objectives into scalable technical solutions that deliver value across the organization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, driving impactful solutions across engineering, product, and business teams.

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The Role

As Staff Data Engineer, you will provide senior onshore technical leadership for the data engineering team. You will own a defined slice of our centralized Databricks data platform with full accountability for decisions and delivery, serve as a technical counterpart to the Principal Data Platform Engineer, and drive architectural judgment and independent problem-solving as platform complexity scales post-migration.

This is a hands-on data engineering role focused on building and maintaining production pipelines, exercising architectural judgment on data modeling and pipeline design, and serving as the onshore escalation point and institutional knowledge backup for platform decisions.

The Business Challenge

We operate multiple product lines (Transfer Pricing, R&D Services, RoyaltyStat, Provisioning), each with distinct databases containing enterprise financial data—journal entries, general ledgers, and financial statements. Our immediate challenge is migrating multi-terabyte datasets from legacy systems to a unified Databricks lakehouse while establishing governance patterns that enable multi-product operations at scale. As the platform matures, the data engineering team needs senior onshore technical presence to drive architecture ownership and maintain platform quality.

What You'll Build

• Production Data Pipelines: Build and maintain production data pipelines within the patterns and governance established by the Lead Data Platform Engineer, ensuring reliability and performance at multi-terabyte scale.
• Data Modeling & Architecture: Exercise architectural judgment on data modeling, pipeline design, and platform usage—translating complex business requirements into scalable data solutions across our product portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage proactively with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions, serving as the primary onshore technical point of contact for data engineering needs.
• Platform Quality: Drive platform quality through code reviews, testing practices, and engineering standards that ensure the team delivers reliable, maintainable data infrastructure.
• Knowledge & Continuity: Serve as onshore escalation point and institutional knowledge backup for platform decisions, reducing single-point-of-failure risk and building onshore technical depth as the platform scales.

Business Problems You'll Solve

• Multi-Product Data Delivery: Implement data pipelines that serve multiple product lines (Transfer Pricing, R&D Services, RoyaltyStat, Provisioning) with distinct data requirements, ensuring each product gets the data it needs reliably and on schedule.
• Legacy Migration Execution: Lead pipeline implementation for migrating multi-terabyte datasets from legacy systems to Databricks, working within the architecture defined by the Lead Data Platform Engineer.
• Onshore Technical Leadership: Provide the senior judgment layer the current nearshore team cannot—owning problems end-to-end, making independent architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers to raise the quality bar across the team.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Bridge the gap between product teams and data infrastructure, translating business requirements into data solutions and ensuring the data platform delivers on product commitments.

Required Experience

Core Data Engineering

• SQL, Python, and PySpark—production pipeline implementation and performance optimization
• Databricks experience—Delta Lake, Workflows, and Databricks SQL; Unity Catalog familiarity preferred
• 5+ years in data engineering with demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end without close direction
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale, including error handling, monitoring, and data quality validation
• Strong data modeling skills across structured and semi-structured data sources

Platform & Infrastructure

• AWS experience (S3, IAM, VPC) with ability to collaborate on infrastructure decisions
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred)
• Familiarity with data governance patterns (Unity Catalog, data lineage, access controls)

Technical Leadership

• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent architectural judgment—not just ticket execution
• Experience mentoring or guiding junior and mid-level data engineers
• Strong written and verbal communication—able to document architecture decisions and engage directly with both technical and business stakeholders
• Onshore (US-based)—role requires timezone overlap, async-light communication, and direct stakeholder engagement

Preferred But Not Required

• Experience with financial data, accounting systems (NetSuite), or enterprise ERP platforms
• Background building pipelines that serve AI/ML workloads (preparing data for downstream ML consumption, RAG, and LLMs)
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and compliance requirements for regulated industries
• Experience working alongside or transitioning from nearshore engineering teams

What We Offer

(The following only applies to US-based positions)

• A collaborative team culture with opportunities for career development.
• Ample opportunities to be recognized, build valuable skills, and grow your career.
• Generous vacation policy, including paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive health plans with FSA and HSA options.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life and disability insurance coverage.
• Supplemental benefits like a dependent care savings plan, pet insurance, will preparation, and an employee assistance program.

About Us

At Exactera, a FinTech SaaS start-up founded in 2016, we stand at the intersection of human and machine intelligence. Our corporate tax solutions are powered by AI and cloud-based technologies, serving customers worldwide. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for all.

Please note that this position can be based in Princeton, NJ, San Diego, CA, or San Francisco, CA. Acadia's hybrid model requires this role to work in our office three days per week on average.

Position Summary

The Sr. Director, Commercial Advanced Analytics & Data Strategy is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining, building, and scaling the analytics capabilities, data strategy, and governance frameworks that enable commercial decision-making across the organization. This role ensures that high quality data, advanced analytics, and AI enabled insights are seamlessly integrated into commercial strategy, planning, launch execution, and in market optimization.  The Sr. Director serves as a strategic partner cross-functionally, translating business priorities into scalable analytics products and platforms while ensuring governance, compliance, and measurable business impact.

Over time, this role will build and mature commercial advanced analytics and data capabilities, establish fit‑for‑purpose operating models, and define future talent and capability needs to support the evolving business. The role will work closely with Acadia’s AI team, which provides shared AI expertise across Commercial and R&D, as well as with IT teams responsible for enterprise data, infrastructure, and platform enablement.

Primary Responsibilities

Commercial Analytics Strategy & Leadership

• Partner with Commercial leadership to define the advance analytics vision, strategy and initiatives that enables the development of scalable analytics and decision-support capabilities that drive business outcomes

• Lead and govern advanced analytics projects, predictive analytics, and AI/machine learning solutions  supporting brand strategy, launch planning, patient support, segmentation, targeting, omnichannel optimization, and sales effectiveness.

• Enable AI-driven commercial use cases such as next-best-action, customer engagement optimization, automated forecasting, and scenario planning.

• Balance innovation with rigor by ensuring analytics solutions are interpretable, validated, and compliant with internal and external requirements including privacy laws

• Translate commercial business questions into analytics use cases, models, and decision frameworks.

• Ensure analytics outputs and insights are actionable, adopted, and embedded into commercial planning, existing workflows, processes, systems and demonstrate measurable outcomes.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Commercial leadership, influencing decisions through data-driven insights

• Partner with the Enterprise AI team to identify, prioritize, and scale high-value AI and advanced analytic capabilities, solutions and governance.

Data Strategy, Governance and Cross-Functional Enablement Leadership

• Establish commercial data strategy to support the organization in achieving its business objectives. This includes leading the acquisition, implementation, and evolution of the commercial data assets, including syndicated claims, EMR, prescription, HUB/SP/Partner, promotional, and digital data.

• Partner cross-functionally with Enterprise Data, IT, and infrastructure teams to enable scalable data platforms, data pipelines, and tools that support analytics, AI, and self-service insights.

• Oversee vendor selection and management for data sources, analytics tools, and platforms.

• Establish governance frameworks for data access, analytics validation, and model lifecycle management.

• Collaborate with legal/compliance teams to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and internal data privacy and security policies.

• Partner with IT data and infrastructure teams to align commercial analytics needs with enterprise architecture, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term data strategy.

Leadership & Communication

• Serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clarity of requirements and outcomes.

• Influence senior executives through concise storytelling, visualization, and business impact measurement.

• Build, lead, retain and mentor a high-performing team and capability in support of advanced analytics, data acquisition, and data governance, while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• Assess and evolve organizational capabilities, talent, and ways of working needed to scale commercial advanced analytics over time.

• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Education/Experience/Skills

Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, engineering, computer science, or a related field; Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or MBA) preferred.  Targeting 12 years of progressively responsible experience in commercial analytics, data science, or data infrastructure data strategy, or related functions, with significant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical organizations.  An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.

Key Skills:

• Advanced analytics, modeling, and visualization tool experience (AI/ML, predictive analytics (Python), SQL, R and PowerBI).

• Experience working with modern data platforms and cloud technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, DataRobot, Dataiku, AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Deep experience and understanding of commercial datasets, data environments, and data vendors (including Hub, Specialty Pharmacy, patient services, Veeva CRM, syndicated claims, prescriptions, payer, social media/website, Google, Facebook etc.).

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional AI/ML and Analytical initiatives and influence senior stakeholders and to drive adoption of analytic solutions.

• Solid understanding of pharmaceutical commercialization concepts including launches, brand planning, and lifecycle management.

• Demonstrated experience in leading data governance initiatives and processes.

• Demonstrated ability to design and communicate complex systems and analytical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences, aligning resources and execution to achieve functional and enterprise goals.

• Proven abilities with executive-level communication, data storytelling, and change leadership.

• Demonstrated impact of analytics on commercial strategy, decision making, performance, and ROI.

• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop talent while building organizational capability in a fast-evolving environment.

• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional partners and business stakeholders to deliver scalable analytics solutions.

• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on prioritization and execution in fast past environment.

Physical Requirements

This role involves regular standing, walking, sitting, and the use of hands for handling or operating equipment. The employee may also need to reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and maintain visual, verbal, and auditory communication in a standard office environment and while working independently from remote locations. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.  This position requires the ability to travel independently overnight and/or work after hours as required by travel schedules or business needs.

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At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.

Rockstar Games is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Data Engineering to join a team focused on building a cutting-edge game analytics platform and tools to better understand our players and enhance their experience in our games.   

The ideal candidate will be skilled in developing complex ingestion and transformation processes with an emphasis on reliability and performance. In collaboration with Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and other Software Engineers, the candidate will empower the team of Analysts and Data Scientists to deliver data driven insights and applications to company stakeholders.  

This is a full-time, in-office position based out of Rockstar’s newly renovated game development studio in Andover, MA.

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Online Services team builds the technology foundation that powers our games and delivers world-class player experiences.  
• Our Data Engineering group manages petabyte-scale data, integrating dozens of streaming and batch sources with strict requirements for reliability, compliance, and low-latency processing. 
• We approach data engineering with the rigor of software engineering by applying modern practices such as clean architecture, modular design, and automated testing. Our focus is on building scalable, reusable platforms and frameworks that enable our partners in Data Science and Game Development to deliver insights and unlock new possibilities for players. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services, with a primary focus on raw and bronze-level ingestion. 
• Develop and operate stream–based applications responsible 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 platform-level concerns such as deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD. 
• Participate in the design and implementation of cloud-native data infrastructure supporting real-time and batch workloads. 

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in a distributed or data-intensive environment. 
• Strong experience with Java (and/or Scala) as well as Python, in backend or data processing applications. 
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka or Kafka Streams (or similar). 
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, including schema evolution and compatibility. 
• Experience building real-time and/or near-real-time data pipelines at scale. 
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, exactly-once/at-least-once semantics). 
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices. 

PLUSES

Please note that these are desirable skills and are not required to apply for the position.

• Experience with Databricks, particularly for ingestion, bronze-layer processing, or structured streaming. 
• Experience deploying and scaling applications in containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, AKS). 
• Experience working with artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, ProGet, Maven repositories). 
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles). 
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem. 
• Familiarity with Apache Spark. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows. 

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a resume and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter during the interview process.                             

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

#LI-BB1

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.

Rockstar Games is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Data Engineering to join a team focused on building a cutting-edge game analytics platform and tools to better understand our players and enhance their experience in our games.   

The ideal candidate will be skilled in developing complex ingestion and transformation processes with an emphasis on reliability and performance. In collaboration with Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and other Software Engineers, the candidate will empower the team of Analysts and Data Scientists to deliver data driven insights and applications to company stakeholders.  

This is a full-time, in-office position based out of Rockstar’s new state-of-the-art game development studio in Carlsbad, CA.

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Online Services team builds the technology foundation that powers our games and delivers world-class player experiences.  
• Our Data Engineering group manages petabyte-scale data, integrating dozens of streaming and batch sources with strict requirements for reliability, compliance, and low-latency processing. 
• We approach data engineering with the rigor of software engineering by applying modern practices such as clean architecture, modular design, and automated testing. Our focus is on building scalable, reusable platforms and frameworks that enable our partners in Data Science and Game Development to deliver insights and unlock new possibilities for players. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services, with a primary focus on raw and bronze-level ingestion. 
• Develop and operate stream–based applications responsible 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 platform-level concerns such as deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD. 
• Participate in the design and implementation of cloud-native data infrastructure supporting real-time and batch workloads. 

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in a distributed or data-intensive environment. 
• Strong experience with Java (and/or Scala) as well as Python, in backend or data processing applications. 
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka or Kafka Streams (or similar). 
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, including schema evolution and compatibility. 
• Experience building real-time and/or near-real-time data pipelines at scale. 
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, exactly-once/at-least-once semantics). 
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices. 

PLUSES

Please note that these are desirable skills and are not required to apply for the position.

• Experience with Databricks, particularly for ingestion, bronze-layer processing, or structured streaming. 
• Experience deploying and scaling applications in containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, AKS). 
• Experience working with artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, ProGet, Maven repositories). 
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles). 
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem. 
• Familiarity with Apache Spark. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows. 

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a resume and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter during the interview process.                             

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

#LI-BB1

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.

Rockstar Games is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Data Engineering to join a team focused on building a cutting-edge game analytics platform and tools to better understand our players and enhance their experience in our games.   

The ideal candidate will be skilled in developing complex ingestion and transformation processes with an emphasis on reliability and performance. In collaboration with Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and other Software Engineers, the candidate will empower the team of Analysts and Data Scientists to deliver data driven insights and applications to company stakeholders.  

This is a full-time, in-office position based out of Rockstar’s NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan. 

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Online Services team builds the technology foundation that powers our games and delivers world-class player experiences.  
• Our Data Engineering group manages petabyte-scale data, integrating dozens of streaming and batch sources with strict requirements for reliability, compliance, and low-latency processing. 
• We approach data engineering with the rigor of software engineering by applying modern practices such as clean architecture, modular design, and automated testing. Our focus is on building scalable, reusable platforms and frameworks that enable our partners in Data Science and Game Development to deliver insights and unlock new possibilities for players. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services, with a primary focus on raw and bronze-level ingestion. 
• Develop and operate stream–based applications responsible 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 platform-level concerns such as deployment automation, observability, operational tooling, and CI/CD. 
• Participate in the design and implementation of cloud-native data infrastructure supporting real-time and batch workloads. 

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems, preferably in a distributed or data-intensive environment. 
• Strong experience with Java (and/or Scala) as well as Python, in backend or data processing applications. 
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka or Kafka Streams (or similar). 
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, including schema evolution and compatibility. 
• Experience building real-time and/or near-real-time data pipelines at scale. 
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, exactly-once/at-least-once semantics). 
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats and schema governance practices. 

PLUSES

Please note that these are desirable skills and are not required to apply for the position.

• Experience with Databricks, particularly for ingestion, bronze-layer processing, or structured streaming. 
• Experience deploying and scaling applications in containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, AKS). 
• Experience working with artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, ProGet, Maven repositories). 
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles). 
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem. 
• Familiarity with Apache Spark. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows. 

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with a resume and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills above. If we would like to move forward with your application, a Rockstar recruiter will reach out to you to explain next steps and guide you through the process.

Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect. In line with this commitment, Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles. If you need more information about Rockstar’s reasonable accommodation policies or process, or need to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter during the interview process.                             

If you’ve got the right skills for the job, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

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SLSQ227R459

Location: Arizona

As an Enterprise Account Executive in Databricks', you are an enterprise sales professional experienced in selling to Manufacturing Enterprise accounts. You know how to sell innovation and change through customer vision expansion and can guide deals forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in depth and are passionate about communicating its value to Customers and System Integrators. Always looking for new opportunities, you will close new accounts while maintaining existing accounts. Along with the chance to close exciting deals and solve meaningful problems, we also offer accelerators above 100% quota attainment.

You will report to the Director of Enterprise Sales.

The impact you will have:

• Present a territory plan within first 90 days
• Meet with CIOs, IT executives, LOB executives, Program Managers, and other important partners
• Close both new accounts and existing accounts
• Identify and close quick, small wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue targets
• Track all customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers
• Promote Databricks' enterprise cloud data platform powered by Apache Spark
• Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers
• Prioritize opportunities and applying appropriate resources
• Build a plan for success internally at Databricks and externally with your accounts.

What we look for:

• You have previously worked in an early stage company and you know how to navigate and be successful
• Field sales experience within big data, Cloud, and SaaS sales
• Prior customer relationships with CIOs, program managers, and essential decision makers
• Simply articulate intricate cloud technologies
• 7+ years of Enterprise Sales experience exceeding quotas, covering relevant accounts and industries
• Success closing new accounts while working existing accounts
• Understanding of Spark and big data preferable
• Bachelor's Degree