
Senior Data Engineer – 3-6 Month Contract
Tripledot Studios
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Lithuania
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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
- - **Time Off:** Statutory Time Off policy for location in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
- - **Health & Wellness:** Based on country requirements. Private Healthcare or Healthcare stipend subject to eligibility.
- - **Continuous Professional Development:** Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLELTSQLPythonbig data technologiesdata modelinggenerative AIcloud infrastructurecontainerization
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetstrong communication skillsproduct-focused approach