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!
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