Head of Data Engineering
Lead the data engineering organization, overseeing data warehouse, pipelines, and analytics platform. Build a scalable, reliable ecosystem powering internal and user-facing products. Drive data quality, governance, and a data-driven culture across the company.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, maintain, and scale core data warehouse, pipelines, and data platform.
- Design and manage reliable ETL and ELT flows across databases, APIs, event streams, business systems, and data lakes.
- Own data quality, event tracking, governance, and the company’s source-of-truth systems.
- Build data solutions for internal teams and external user-facing products used by creators, mod authors, and millions of gamers.
- Partner with business teams to transform data needs into robust self-serve analytics and AI-assisted insights.
- Lead and mentor data engineers, BI developers, and analysts while raising the technical bar across the data organization.
- Champion accessible data tooling and help foster a data-driven culture across the company.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in a startup or fast-paced technology company.
- 4+ years of management experience, preferably in B2B2C, marketplace, SaaS, or consumer-scale environments.
- Proven experience building and leading technical data teams, including data engineers, BI developers, and analysts.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and scaling cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake.
- Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL and ELT pipelines, orchestration tools such as Airflow, and analytics-ready data models.
- Experience owning data quality, governance, event tracking, and company-wide source-of-truth systems.
- Strong understanding of SaaS metrics, marketplace dynamics, and user behavior analytics.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all levels.
Nice to have
- Passion for gaming, creators, and the creator economy.