Austin, TX, USA
Data Engineer
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Role Description
The opportunity
As the leading development platform for online and mobile games, Unity propels developers' creations to new heights. Unity Monetization empowers developers to thrive through innovative advertising, in-app purchases, and analytics. We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team and build scalable, high-performance data frameworks for Unity's next-gen data platform, supporting advanced analytics, reporting, and machine learning. Join us and be at the forefront of game-changing data solutions in a rapidly growing industry.
What you'll be doing
- Build, scale, and maintain data pipelines to process billions of daily events into our Hadoop and RDBMS data warehouses.
- Write and tune complex Java, MapReduce, Pig and Hive jobs. Explore available technologies and design solutions to continuously improve our data quality, workflow reliability, scalability while reporting performance and capabilities.
- Work closely with the product team to identify the most important KPIs and track them.
- Maintain the data’s integrity, create intermediate tables and views, and maintain the team’s dashboards.
- Work with the product team to maintain a weekly reporting cadence of new features, programs, and campaigns.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree, or a foreign equivalent degree, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field and three (3) years of experience with Data Engineering.
- Also requires three (3) years of experience in ETL/ELT tools and developing data applications; Developing data applications using SQL and Python; Cloud technologies including at least one of AWS, GCP, or similar; Breaking down business requirements and translating to technical requirements with data-driven insights and reports; and GitHub and CI/CD Pipelines.
- In the alternative, will accept a Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in Data Engineering.
- Also requires one (1) year of experience in ETL/ELT tools and developing data applications; Developing data applications using SQL and Python; Cloud technologies including at least one of AWS, GCP, or similar; Breaking down business requirements and translating to technical requirements with data-driven insights and reports; and GitHub and CI/CD Pipelines.
- Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
- Telecommuting permitted
Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.
As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.
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