Data Engineer - Remote Eligible

Data Engineer

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

Big Challenges

• We have a MASSIVE amount of activity to be logged and parsed for social feeds and product optimization.
• We have a MASSIVE amount of games, puzzles, chats, and more!
• We have a MASSIVE amount of analysis being done on all aspects of our data.

What You'll Do

• Proactively collaborate with teammates to design and implement our world-class data platform.
• Develop and maintain dbt framework and API services and libraries that provide our core metrics, cohorts, and forecasts.
• Write and maintain reliable and efficient Airflow/Spark/Flink jobs to clean and enrich our data before it reaches our data warehouse.
• Use BigQuery and Airflow and dbt to perform data aggregations supporting insight generation.
• Protect our player's PII and help support data compliance across our data stack.
• Build and support tools for our internal teams to use to run experiments and access data.
• Support query design and query review and enable team members to share data.

Preferred Skills

• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Experience building and supporting data pipelines
• Experiencing running data workloads in the cloud in GCP
• Experience with Airflow, Flink & BigQuery or similar technology
• Experience with SQL and multiple databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc)
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code through Terraform
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)