Data Engineer - Riot Data Products, CDW

Job Description

Riot Games was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill with the intent to change the way video games are made and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to worldwide acclaim. The game has since gone on to become the most played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and it’s for them we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience. Riot Games is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and has 23 offices worldwide.

The Role:

Engineers at Riot master their craft by building, launching, and operating games that delight players all over the world. As a Data Engineer on the CDW team, you will help build title specific systems to balance, to improve the player experience, and to launch new data-empowered products. As well as help to build processes to meet the data needs of multiple titles.

As a Data Engineer (Data) on the CDW team, you will have the chance to collaborate with engineers, analysts and data scientists. You will also contribute to robust and reliable data solutions and platforms that extract value from data throughout the game development lifecycle. You'll use your expertise with large-scale data systems to help us build efficient solutions. You will report directly to the Manager for Fandom & Experience's Features & Metrics team.

Responsibilities:

• Work with other engineers, data science experts
• Handle a range of engineering problems related to data capabilities in the backend services
• Design sustainable, reusable data marts and telemetry that can be applied to all new games
• Work with data scientists and analysts who will use your data marts to help with decisions or build services
• Safeguard player data

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a data / software engineer (Internships, part-time developer, and post-bachelor degrees count as relevant experience )
• Experience in Data engineering or Data analyst roles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Software development across multiple languages ( Python preferred, Java, Scala)
• Familiarity with SQL, relational databases
• Experience in Business Analytics or any data related area.
• Experience with data processing (e.g. Spark, BigQuery etc)
• Worked with scheduling and orchestration softwares (Airflow)
• Experience working with Amazon Web Services, querying and working with data in multiple AWS services.
• Work with software engineers to create test strategies, plans and cases that provide acceptable coverage for a given data pipeline.

((For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!))

Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).