Senior Data DevOps Engineer
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About the Position
Our client is one of the largest game studios known for their very successful MOBA and FPS franchises. You will be a member of the Data Operations team focused on modernizing the Analytics Platform and building the services, tooling, and infrastructure that support data ingestion, schema management, and reliable delivery of analytics data into Databricks.
As a core contributor, you will play a vital role in building dependable data solutions capable of processing petabytes of information. Your work will span backend services, schema and metadata tooling, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and production operations. You will help product teams and internal platform users adopt new data standards, migrate safely from legacy systems, and operate their services with improved reliability, observability, and efficiency.
You will bring your experience working with large-scale data systems and production infrastructure to help design and operate a modern data platform that is easier to evolve, safer to change, and better aligned with future data engineering needs.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services and pipelines that power analytics data ingestion, schema management, and delivery into Databricks
- Modernize legacy platform components by migrating services, libraries, and deployment workflows to modern Java and application standards
- Build automation, CI/CD flows, and scenario/integration test coverage to make platform changes safe and repeatable
- Design and maintain production infrastructure in AWS using Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform
- Improve data quality through stronger schema validation, metadata capture, lineage tracking, and operational guardrails
- Build tooling and paved paths that help internal customers migrate to new ingestion and schema standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prepare design docs, rollout plans, and implementation strategies for platform changes
- Monitor live systems, investigate incidents, and be part of the on-call team that provides 3rd line support to live analytics services
- Support performance, reliability, and cost optimization across ingestion and processing flows
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years commercial work experience in software engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, or a related field
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Coding skills, with commercial experience in one of the following languages - Java, Python, Golang
- Knowledge in Infrastructure as Code tooling, e.g. Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker
- Experience with streaming and schema-driven systems, e.g. Kafka, Protobuf, JSON Schema, or schema registries
- Commercial experience with Airflow and DBT (Data Build Tool)
- Commercial experience with Databricks
- Commercial experience with Spark/PySpark
- Effective communication and teamwork skills
Nice to Have
- Experience migrating legacy services or frameworks to modern application stacks
- Experience with Databricks Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog
- Experience with AWS, especially Kafka/MSK-based data flows, S3, IAM and VPC/networking
- Experience with Buf, Protobuf tooling, or JSON-to-Protobuf migration work
- Familiarity with Golang for internal tooling or automation
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and on-call practices using tools like Datadog and PagerDuty
- Experience working with cross-discipline organizations that build data products
- Experience in the gaming industry, particularly with online multiplayer games
- Proficient in large-scale data manipulation across various data types
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and optimize complex ETL pipelines
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Job Info
Location: Krakow, Poland · Remote: Yes
Type: Full-time
Salary: 26,000–28,000 net / mo (EUR)
Category: B2B
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Advertising Technology,Gaming,Venture Capital
About the Company Appliscale is an IT consulting company specializing in Adtech, Cloud, and Scalability solutions. The company has been operating for 11+ years and has shipped over 45 projects. They handle data for more than 4 million concurrent users. Appliscale has partnered with notable companies in digital advertising, gaming, and gambling, such as Verizon Media and Novomatic. Products, Services & Tech Stack Core Solutions: AdTech Infrastructure: Containerized bidders, RTB platforms, attribution and reporting, the engineering behind global programmatic at scale. Game Backends: Multiplayer netcode, leaderboards, anti-cheat, monetization, live-ops analytics, backends that survive a launch weekend. Cloud-Native Platforms: Multi-cloud architectures on AWS and GCP, IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, CI/CD that engineers trust. Data & Streaming: Stream and batch pipelines moving billions of events. Redshift, Snowflake, Spark, real-time analytics. Agentic AI: AI agents in production, campaign optimization, deal troubleshooting, autonomous workflows with auditable reasoning. Studio & Investments: Operator-led investments in SaaS, AdTech, GameTech. Technologies & Frameworks: Programming Languages: Go, Node.js, Java, TypeScript, Python, C#, Erlang, Elixir Mobile Platforms: iOS, Android Cloud Services: AWS, GCP Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation CI/CD Tools: Not explicitly mentioned Data Platforms: Redshift, Snowflake, Spark Project Scope & Target Clients Client Base: Digital Advertising Gaming Gambling Engineering Scale: Handles billions of impressions a day. Processes over 400 million HTTP events daily. Handles more than 1TB of data. Responsible for massive global MOBA and FPS franchises with millions of concurrent players.