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Chess.com is hiring a Data Engineer - Platform. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and platforms using tools like Airflow, Spark, Flink, and BigQuery to support data aggregation, analysis, and product optimization. The engineer will also protect player data privacy, ensure compliance, and create internal tools for experimentation and data accessibility.

Highlights

Design and implement world-class data platforms in collaboration with teammates.
Develop and maintain dbt frameworks, API services, and libraries for core metrics and forecasts.
Write reliable Airflow, Spark, and Flink jobs to clean and enrich data before warehousing.
Use BigQuery and Airflow for data aggregations supporting insights generation.
Protect player personally identifiable information (PII) and support data compliance efforts.
Build and support tools for internal teams to run experiments and access data.
Strong experience with SQL, multiple databases (MySQL, MongoDB), and cloud data workloads on GCP.
Familiarity with Airflow, Flink, BigQuery, and deploying infrastructure as code via Terraform.
Preferred candidates have strong communication and collaboration skills in distributed teams, ownership mindset, and a passion for chess.
Full-time remote position with a global team supporting 200M+ chess players worldwide.

Data Engineer - Platform Full Description

Data Engineer - Platform
Engineering

Remote

About Us

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.

About You

You are a data nerd with strong engineering skills. You have built and maintained data pipelines in production at large scale and you are able to make technology decisions about tooling and operations. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

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!)

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You can learn more about us here:

Original Job Description

Data Engineer - Platform
Engineering

Remote

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

About You

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!)

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You can learn more about us here:

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