Senior Data Engineer

Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates.

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help evolve our data tooling and platform as we aim to build more paved pathways to support growth. You’ll be relied on for your expertise in  transforming pipelines and the data warehouse to be more resilient, extensible, and maintainable. This role sits on the Data Engineering Team, which is focused on delivering high-quality data and tooling on a reliable and scalable platform. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the company to understand their needs and build systems to unlock operational efficiencies or analytic insights. Our solutions benefit everyone including Analysts, Product Managers, Marketers, Developers, Executives, Coaches, Players, and Parents!

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and maintain scalable, robust and efficient data platforms serving analytic and operational needs across the organization.

• Architect and implement high volume, high load data pipelines.

• Improve existing systems' performance, observability, reliability, and scalability.

• Collaborate with data producers and consumers across the organization to drive efficiencies for their work.

• Optimize our data pipelines for scale, identifying new infrastructure and software patterns as needed

• Debug and troubleshoot complex problems across multiple systems and services.

• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance.

• Share your knowledge through technical documentation, code reviews, and mentoring.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of software development experience, preferably as a data or backend engineer.

• Expertise in Python for the processing of data.

• Expertise with containers and orchestration tools, preferably Airflow

• Expertise administrating Kafka on AWS and implementing patterns for producers/consumers

• Expertise with IaC tools like Terraform.

• Experience with SQL and cloud data warehousing in Snowflake or BigQuery.

• Familiarity with cloud computing services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills.

• Drive to help others learn and improve themselves as engineers.

Bonus Points:

• Prior experience designing and building federated data platforms

• Prior experience building and maintaining MLOps platforms

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years to purchase new technology.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.