Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bullpen Capital is a sports analytics startup focused on predictive sports analytics data products. They are seeking a Senior Product Engineer to build and own production systems for their modeling platform, primarily using Python and Rust, while ensuring reliability and scalability of their real-time products.
Responsibilities
- Build, test, debug, and deploy production-grade components and services powering our real-time sports betting and analytics products
- Own the deployment and operation of your own services on Kubernetes within a larger platform — this is service ownership within a shared ecosystem, not cluster administration or a DevOps function
- Proactively improve and extend our Rust codebase
- Trace and resolve the root causes of data inaccuracies across pipeline dependencies and our Python codebase
- Set up and maintain alerting, monitoring, and observability for the services you own
- Build and maintain the shared frameworks and services that let our models scale in production, and accelerate their adoption across teams
- Apply large-scale data processing techniques to build scalable, innovative sports betting products
- Examine and improve the integration and scaling of our real-time operations, simulations, and experiments
- Develop solutions for open-ended problems where information is incomplete and no precedent exists
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 5–7 years building and shipping production software
- Advanced Python experience (Rust experience strongly preferred)
- Comfortable owning your own services in a Kubernetes environment
- Experience setting up alerting and monitoring systems
- Experience with Kafka (or a comparable streaming / event platform)
- Proficiency with SQL
- Experience with source control (GitHub) and related CI/CD processes
- Experience working in AWS environments
- Track record of technical leadership and partnering across teams on complex, ambiguous problems
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Rust experience strongly preferred
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