Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Description

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Scopely is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our Playgami Data Platform team.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people worldwide daily.

Playgami builds technology for game teams across Scopely. Our Data Platform provides the shared foundation that enables teams to use data safely and reliably at scale, supporting 15+ games and 2,000+ active users across Scopely and processing more than 60TB of data per day .

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will build and improve the shared infrastructure, tooling, and services that power data and analytics teams across Scopely.
• You will investigate platform needs, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and turn agreed priorities into tested code and reusable infrastructure. Working closely with data and analytics teams, Security, and Governance, you will take platform improvements from technical design through deployment and operation.
• Your main responsibility will be to improve the security, reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our Data Platform while making it easier for teams to build and operate their data workloads.
• You will lead the technical design and delivery of platform improvements, making informed tradeoffs between reliability, security, scalability, and cost as part of a shared team roadmap.
• Build and operate shared GCP and BigQuery infrastructure using Terraform, automated checks, and CI/CD.
• Build scalable, self-service platform capabilities that enable data teams to develop, deploy, and operate workloads with less manual support.
• Improve user and service account access, ensuring least-privilege principles and dependable approval, review, and revocation processes.
• Translate Security and Governance requirements into practical controls for sensitive data and data sharing.
• Improve Airflow and Cloud Composer reliability through troubleshooting, staged upgrades, and tested recovery processes.
• Improve cloud data platform performance and cost efficiency using workload and capacity insights.
• Build actionable monitoring and alerts, investigate incidents, and implement improvements to prevent recurring failures.
• Partner with teams to understand their needs, investigate platform challenges, evaluate potential solutions, and help shape the technical roadmap.
• Make platform workflows easier to adopt and operate through documentation, runbooks, and mentoring.
• Provide infrastructure, access controls, and shared tooling that help teams use data safely and reliably at scale.

Requirements

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production cloud or data platforms, including safe releases and recovery.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, BigQuery, IAM, service accounts, and Cloud Storage , or strong equivalent cloud experience.
• Experience authoring Terraform and CI/CD workflows , testing infrastructure changes, and resolving drift.
• Experience with Python for reusable automation and SQL for investigating data and workload behavior.
• Experience implementing and validating least-privilege access, sensitive data controls, and audit logging.
• Experience operating Airflow, Cloud Composer, Dagster , or a similar workflow orchestrator.
• Demonstrated experience reducing manual work or improving platform reliability, workload performance, or cloud costs.
• Strong English communication skills and experience collaborating with engineering, security, and data teams.
• Bonus Points
• Experience with BigQuery reservations, capacity management, query optimization, and cost attribution.
• Experience with Cloud Composer migrations or upgrades, multi-environment orchestration, and recovery testing.
• Experience with Workload Identity Federation, short-lived credentials, access approval integrations, or tools such as Britive and Lumos.
• Experience with data classification, column-level controls, masking, controlled sharing, or automated discovery of sensitive data.
• Experience automating and operating Looker, dbt, Fivetran, or Cube as shared platform services.
• Experience supporting automated data workloads, including access controls, monitoring, and cost limits.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools for platform automation, troubleshooting, or documentation, with appropriate testing and review.
• You do not need experience with every tool listed. We value production ownership, sound engineering judgement, and the ability to learn. Relevant experience can come from data platform, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• About Scopely
• Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble franchise, “Yahtzee With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
• Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the 1 mobile games company in the U.S. and 2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
• Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
• Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/ .
• Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @ scopely.com .
• Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.