Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch data processing services
• Develop and operate stream-based applications for real-time data transformation, enrichment, and validation
• Own and evolve event schemas and data contracts using Avro and Schema Registry
• Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and performance of ingestion pipelines under heavy load
• Contribute to deployment automation, observability, and CI/CD
• Participate in the design of cloud-native data infrastructure

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems
• Strong experience with Java, Scala, and Python
• Experience designing and operating streaming systems using Kafka or Kafka Streams
• Experience with event-driven architectures and schema evolution
• Experience building real-time or near-real-time data pipelines at scale
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts like partitioning and fault tolerance
• Familiarity with Avro, Protobuf, or similar serialization formats

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks and structured streaming
• Experience with containerized environments like Kubernetes or AKS
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem
• Familiarity with Apache Spark and CI/CD pipelines

About the Company

Rockstar Games creates world-class entertainment experiences. The Online Services team builds the technology foundation that powers games and delivers world-class player experiences through large-scale, data-intensive engineering.