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Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment games don’t just begin with game ideas or end once those games are released. A lot more goes into the creation of an epic game than the work of developers and more than you can ever imagine goes into continuing to build and hone and perfect the most epic gaming experience in the years after our games are in the hands of gamers worldwide.

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an Engineer with software and data development experience to join our Global Growth Marketing Analytics team to help shape the next generation of personalized player experiences and deliver growth through player first brand, CRM and performance marketing practices. We are developing data-driven connections and tools to provide engaging experiences to our existing and new players. As part of this role, you will be responsible for contributing to the design, implementation, and maintenance of these services as well as building the automation workflows and technologies towards Marketing’s future data platform.

Knowledge and Experience

  • Experience working in a team environment, contributing to technical roadmaps and aligning with stakeholders
  • Have technical design knowledge, architectural patterns, and tradeoffs
  • Troubleshooting and navigating complex technical challenges
  • Code development and build process best practices
  • Data Warehouse Strategies and Technologies (Teradata, BigQuery pluses)
  • ETL Tools and Frameworks (Apache Spark and Apache Beam a plus)
  • Data enrichment, aggregation, and replication pipeline practices
  • SQL, data structures, and data models
  • DevOps build techniques and practices (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform pluses)
  • Experience with workflow schedulers like Airflow
  • Cloud Development Experience on platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 2-3 years’ experience on a software team building back-end tools and data services, data platforms, APIs or microservices in a large-scale production environment
  • Good experience working with relational databases and writing SQL
  • Data Modelling and Warehousing experience
  • Cloud development experience a must

Pluses

  • Google Cloud data engineering experience
  • Enjoy and have experience in building data pipeline frameworks and APIs.
  • MPP Database Solutions, Data Warehousing Technologies
  • Java and Python preferred

Application Materials

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter which should include: Why you are interested in working at Blizzard?

Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work/life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences.