Senior Data Engineer, FACEIT
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Gaming platform for online multiplayer games
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Gaming platform for online multiplayer games
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To further the esports ecosystem by offering players of all levels the chance to compete in a competitive environment with the games they love.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a technical leader who knows that the true mark of intelligence and experience is kindness, and the responsibility to use it to level up everyone around you
- You’ve participated in shaping the architecture of a mature data platform, designed for different consumer types, and providing quantifiable business value
- You’ve run PoCs, planned large migrations of data and code, and participated in planning a roadmap multiple times before
- You have hands-on experience in building resilient batch (Airflow, Fivetran) and streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Dataflow) data pipelines at scale (> 1 TB/day)
- You can advocate passionately for your tried-and-true best practices of CI/CD in data engineering (Github Actions, Jenkins)
- You can build and maintain your own infrastructure through IaC (Terraform); you rely on DevOps expertise when needed
- You have designed and implemented performant, reusable, and scalable data models (dbt) in cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake)
- You possess a comprehensive understanding of database design principles (star/snowflake schemas, data vault, normal forms) for effective and scalable data structures
- You preach operational procedures from data and infrastructure observability (Monte Carlo, Datadog, Prometheus), alerting and incident management (PagerDuty, incident.io)
- You know SQL & Python like the back of your hand
- You’ve served as a leader in technology in the past; you’ve made mistakes and learned from them
- You have interacted with a large community of stakeholders before; you understand the business use cases and can tailor your communication to ICs and Senior Management
- You like to have a good time while getting things done. When we say a “team player” we mean it - you have a crisp high-five and funny stories to tell. You have your team’s back, and the team has yours
- You love learning new things: You know that there’s always more to learn. You’re up-to-date on new trends in data – you know who’s using what to solve various problems and are excited for the next release of your favorite tool
- Past experience in the Esports/Gaming/Betting/Events industry would be a great asset
- You make the time to cheer and enjoy the ride
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be joining a small team of Data Engineers whose mission is to design, build & evolve a world-class data platform that serves as the backbone of every decision we make at EFG
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture and the tech execution patterns of a green field ecosystem
- Ask all the whys, relentlessly until you know your customer needs inside-out and know you’re designing the right solution to the problems and not the other way around
- Partner with our stakeholders and serve as an internal consultant to foster the adoption of our data platform
- You contribute to the technical strategy of the team, and its execution through prioritization, and delivery management
- Set high standards across documentation, testing, resiliency, monitoring, and code quality. Enforce these standards by holding your team accountable
- You drive towards efficiencies and look for ways to simplify code, infrastructure and data models across the platform
- Inspire, teach and guide your fellow team members; lead design sessions, be there for a code review, take ownership of operational processes
- Write well-rounded, reusable and documented code that captures the essential nature of the solution
- Decompose ambiguous and open-ended problems into solutions composed of multiple tooling
- Construct complex architectures tying multiple services and SaaS tooling together, leveraging a strong understanding of a cloud-based stack (AWS, GCP)
- Drive towards efficiencies, lowering your cloud spend and tackling tech debt on a quarterly basis
- Exemplify the values we live by. Nurture a blameless culture. Know and care for your team members; inspire, and guide them to be the best that they can be
- Be the heart-first, people-first tech lead everyone wants to be around because you have invested in building relationships
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Young people are increasingly turning away from traditional media, and gaming has in recent years become a professional spectator sport that draws huge online crowds. FACEIT is a competitive gaming platform that allows developers to run their own online tournaments, providing ranking charts, skill-based matchmaking and anti-cheat software to ensure that these events are as fair as any traditional sporting competition.
The esports market is projected to be worth about £4.5 billion globally by 2030, and FACEIT has attracted large scale investments as it continues to innovate in this market. Not all of its moves have panned out - for instance its foray into crypto gaming in 2022 could have come at a better time, but its pivot to non-intrusive in-game advertising has been well received by developers and is a testament to the adaptability of the company.
FACEIT is continuing to release and support new gaming products, for instance a car racing tournament released in colloboration with RENNSPORT, where established esports teams and car manufacturers will compete for a prize pool of €500,000. An Overwatch tournament launched in 2024 with a cash prize pool of $170,000. As the esports market shows no sign of slowing down, FACEIT will remain in a strong position to grow alongside it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
-38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$12m
SERIES B
Jan 2016
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29m
Company benefits
- Fully remote or relocation to London supported
- Private Medical Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Cashback on dental care
- Lunch provided daily (when you’re in the office!)
- Kitchen stocked with refreshments (coffee machines everywhere – our founding team is Italian after all!)
- Company book club, and gaming nights
- Flexible working environment
- Company (virtual) drinks session every Friday
- Quarterly team outings
- Your professional growth is important to us. We provide ongoing training opportunities
- And best of all Free Premium FACEIT user account
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Leadership
Niccolo Maisto
(CEO)Started their career as an investment banker at Nomura. Has an MBA from New York University.
Alessandro Avallone
(Chief Gaming Officer)#1 Italian Professional Gamer and World Champion with over 17 years of experience in the video-games industry.
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