Tripledot Studios

Senior Data Engineer – 3-6 Month Contract

Tripledot Studios

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesPythonSparkSQL

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to support AI/ML initiatives across the studio.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and game developers to understand data needs and translate them into robust infrastructure solutions.
  • Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows that ingest and transform structured and unstructured data from various sources (e.g., game telemetry, player behavior, marketing).
  • Work with cloud platforms to manage and optimize data lakes, warehouses, and orchestration tools.
  • Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across all stages of the data lifecycle.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and ensure timely delivery of data to downstream systems.
  • Enable real-time and batch data processing to support AI use cases like player segmentation, churn prediction, personalization, and content optimization.
  • Advocate for best practices in data engineering, including CI/CD, version control, testing, and observability.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally within gaming, mobile apps, or digital products.
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience with databases like Trino, BQ and Redshift is a plus.
  • Proven track record of using big data technologies and distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink) for large scale processing.
  • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (mainly AWS, but understanding of other providers like GCP is a plus) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with machine learning workflows, feature stores, and model serving is a plus.
  • Strong Data Modelling skills, schema evolution management and usage of open table formats, like Apache Iceberg.
  • Usage of generative AI for daily tasks is a plus.
  • Passion for gaming and an interest in using AI to create better player experiences.
  • A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills and a product-focused approach.
Benefits
  • 25 days holiday: Enjoy 20 days of paid holiday plus an additional 5 days per annum, in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
  • Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
  • Supplemental Health Insurance: Continentale: annual budget of 1200 eur - reimbursement for healthcare outside of public plans (glasses, messages, dental treatments etc.)
  • Public Transportation reimbursement: 100% of public transportation to the office via BVG ticket is covered
  • Daily Free Lunch: Order free food from Wolt when at the office.
  • Pension plan: Opt-in to employer contributed pension plan, operated with Degura
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLELTSQLPythonbig data technologiesdata modelinggenerative AIcloud infrastructurecontainerization
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetstrong communication skillsproduct-focused approach