SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (DATA)

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Advertising & Sales Job Description.
Job Description.
Senior Software Engineer (Data) Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries.
Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.
The idea is simple.
great game experiences offer great marketing experiences.
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer in our Ads Engineering team, empowering groundbreaking mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Ads Platform.
Your role within the Kingdom Are you excited to build impactful backend systems for Advertising using the latest technologies? Are you an excellent communicator who enjoys working with people from several different business units? Can you translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation? If you answered yes, then our Senior Data Engineer role on our ads engineering team may be the right role for you! We are an impactful team of problem solvers that are constantly reviewing how and why we do things and learning from each other.
We are experimental, trying out new tech and ideas and willing to do things differently to drive the entire industry forward.
We are sociable and fun, and we like to hang out together.
We are passionate, some might even say quirky, and while we love what we do, our lives are about more than work.
We love games, and are obsessed with creating the best player experience! Your role within Activision Blizzard Media Your role involves designing and developing a highly scalable, available, and reliable Ads & Monetization platform capable of handling billions of requests daily.
You collaborate with architects and fellow engineers to craft backend systems while working closely with product and peer engineering teams on cross-functional projects.
In addition, you partner with DevOps engineers to ensure operational excellence and exhibit a genuine curiosity for mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities.
Build scalable data pipelines and services.
Understand the business requirements and translate them into the development/design tasks.
Follow engineering best practices and design/coding standards.
Collaborate with the other team members across different teams.
Design and implement cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses Choose the right technology stack to align with those use cases with scalability.
Develop alert & monitoring systems and procedures for faster disaster recovery.
Provide mentorship, guidance and technical directions to other specialists and engineers Skills to create thrills.
Degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
Extensive hands-on experience in software design and development.
Previous experience gained working with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres etc.
Strong in Java/Python Development and object-oriented design principles.
Proficient SQL skills and database performance concepts.
Familiarity with NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Cassandra, HBase etc.
Experience with schema design and data modeling.
Strong understanding of large-scale distributed data processing.
Experience with developing extract-transform-load (ETL).
Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark and Flink.
Ability to communicate and articulate thought process effectively with colleagues Ability to work independently with limited guidance.
Preferred Qualifications Working experience in building data warehouses and data lakes.
Experience working with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Experience in ML-Infra Knowledge of advertising platforms About King With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Sag a.
King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users.
King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ.
MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta.
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