Do you have a dynamic approach to solving problems and processing data at scale? Are you passionate about data engineering to tackle complex problems across the business? Do you believe machine learning (ML) can have a material impact on how we do business and want to be a part of the journey to help teams, companywide, enhance our players’ experiences? Then you could be our new, shiny, Senior Data Engineer!
Your role within our Kingdom
You´ll be part of a Central ML Operations team. Working closely together with roles as Data Scientist, ML Engineer, ML Ops Engineer. Our mission? Build and maintain data models & pipelines, ML models & infrastructure to operate machine learning reliably at scale.
As Data Engineer at King, you will be using the latest technologies to build data products (data modelling, data transformation, ETLs) to be used in ML cases across the company. With over 250+ million monthly active users and 50 billion events being uploaded daily, it’s key that you care about writing highly optimized code and ETLs. You’ll be working with both streaming as well as batch data in a highly challenging technical environment.
You will work in collaboration with business stakeholders, both within your team and supporting other teams, on creating value from data. Together with your team members you´ll get to learn on the job every day!
Skills to create thrills
So what about you? You probably have hands on experience in various ML projects working as a data engineer. You are an advocate for data quality and you have a strong opinion on when unit tests, and documentation can be most effective. You are a technical leader, meaning you will be responsible for developing and evolving the data solutions fitting the use- cases.
- Experience in distributed data processing and modeling (batch & streaming)
- Experience building data pipelines and/or ML pipelines
- Experience in GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub to name a few)
- Experience working with applied AI/ML applications
Tasty bonus skills
- Have any sweet experience with one or some of the following areas? Then we sure like to hear about them!
- Development in or exposure to environments/software products in Python and Java
- Experience working with Flink, Kafka, Spark or similar
- Familiar with machine learning concepts and algorithms
- Contributions to open source projects
- We know that you are into games on some level (casual, console, board- games, Uno etc.)
About King
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.
We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the
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A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!
Applications needs to be in English.
