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As a Data Backend Engineer in the data tech team at Embark, you will be a gamemaker focused on building Python/Go services and data applications that turn raw telemetry into insights, tools, and experiences that shape our games. You will help develop the backends that power how our game designers and developers explore, understand, and act on the data their games produce.

The data team at Embark is small and focused on ensuring that game design and development have a data model and reporting system that provide the necessary data and analysis to serve every aspect of the business. At Embark, we believe in creating smaller teams of well-aligned experts that can be trusted to keep things running smoothly while exploring innovative solutions.

Some of the technologies we currently use include Python, Go, GCP, BigQuery, Typescript, Bazel, Terraform, and Kubernetes. As a data backend engineer, your focus is to build services that not only work well, but are also easy to maintain, extend, and deploy.

Example of responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the services that expose game telemetry through APIs and UIs, let teams explore and configure the events their games emit, and serve low-latency data back into game-facing applications.

• Work on our data agent and other LLM-powered tooling that helps game makers ask questions of their data in new ways.

• Add new summaries and refined logic to our event pipeline.

• Continuously improve our engineering practices and automate existing workflows to ensure our services are easy to deploy, scale, and maintain.

• Collaborate closely with other teams to build solutions that players (and fellow game makers) love.

We would love if you have

• A passion for interactive experiences, games, and new technologies.

• Strong experience building production backends and a good sense for what makes them maintainable over time.

• A solid understanding of distributed systems and experience building them on cloud infrastructure.

• Experience working with data at scale — pipelines, warehouses (we use BigQuery), and the trade-offs between batch and streaming.

• A solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and what it takes to keep services running smoothly around the clock.

• A good grasp of performance, optimization, and observability.

• Experience with some of the other technologies we use, such as Python, Go, GCP, and BigQuery.

• The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills.

• Professional English communication skills.

At Embark, we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with, and much more. Most importantly, we invite you to take part in a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising, and beautiful experiences together.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!