Riot Games is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to shape the direction of the 2XKO game by leveraging data to better serve and understand the game and its players. The role involves influencing data management, mentoring junior engineers, and setting technical direction within the studio.
Requirements
- Hands-on expertise in big-data technologies, particularly the Apache stack.
- 2+ years experience working with DBT in a production environment
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Databricks.
- Expertise in designing efficient and scalable data models with large data sets across multiple teams and in collaboration with insights or data stakeholders.
- 2+ years of experience in data engineering for major video game titles.
- Experience using analytics to drive gameplay and feature changes (ideally from game dev through launch)
- Experience working in close partnership with data analysts or product managers.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize scalable ETL pipelines for structured and semi-structured data to support Insights use cases, including independently coding and providing optimizations where applicable.
- Architect and implement robust, maintainable, and high-performance data solutions.
- Collaborate directly with multiple game teams from the early stages of game development to instrument games and ensure proper data collection.
- Own and manage data pipelines and infrastructure across 2XKO.
- Standardize best practices for instrumentation, telemetry, and metrics collection
- Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Mentor data practitioners across all levels, setting best practices and fostering technical growth.
Other
- This role is based in Los Angeles.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and product teams.
- Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers.
- Close personal relationship with games - enjoys gaming as a hobby, plays a variety of genres, and goes deep in several
- If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
