Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SpinQuest is a social casino platform creating scalable, real-time sweepstakes gaming experiences. The Staff Engineer, Data Platform will provide technical leadership for data foundations, designing and evolving real-time and batch pipelines, canonical datasets, transactional systems, analytics, and compliance workflows while influencing engineering, product, security, and compliance teams.
Responsibilities
- Senior Individual Contributor role
- High-ownership, low-process, high-trust environment with strong emphasis on production quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence
- Own and evolve the data platform architecture supporting real-time and batch workloads. Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines for gameplay, payments, and analytics
- Define canonical datasets, data models, and golden paths for data consumption
- Ensure data correctness, auditability, and traceability in regulated environments
- Define SLAs, monitoring, and operational standards for data systems
- Serve as escalation point for complex data incidents
- Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture across teams
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate development, testing, analysis, and documentation
Skills
- 8+ years building large-scale data systems in production environments
- Expertise in data platform architecture, pipelines, and distributed systems
- Strong SQL plus proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala
- Experience operating data platforms with SLAs, on-call rotation, and compliance requirements
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and large-scale data systems, including:Workflow orchestration: Apache AirflowDistributed processing: Apache Spark, Apache Flink. Streaming & messaging: Apache Kafka. Query & analytics engines: Trino, Apache Pinot Data languages: SQL, Python, Scala, Java. Cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems
- Operational tooling for monitoring, alerting, and data quality
- Applied use of AI/LLMs and agents for data analysis, incident response, and developer productivity
- FinTech, gaming, payments, or regulated environment experience
- Real-time streaming, CDC, or event-driven architectures
- Experience stewarding canonical datasets and data governance
- Passion for gaming or entertainment platforms
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