Senior Software Engineer

Playtika is a global leader in social mobile games and we were the first to introduce free-to-play casino-style games to social networks. With 10 games on 12 platforms in 12 languages, Playtika consistently tops social gaming’s “best of” charts, on both web and mobile.

If you are interested in working with talented and passionate teammates and becoming a driving force for the evolution of Big Data systems, then Playtika Santa Monica will be the right fit for you. You’ll work with many exciting Big Data technologies like Apache Storm, Apache Spark, Hadoop, HP-Vertica, as well UTL/ETL/ELT integration solutions using event and messaging systems such as Flume and Kafka.

• Provide expertise and leadership on making technical decisions and delivering a platform that provides business value
• Be innovative and solve complex problems using a variety of tools and technologies
• A commitment to quality and operational excellence in addition to speed of delivery
• Design, build and deploy, scalable and reliable data pipelines to move large amounts of data to MPP columnar Data Warehouses

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data driven insights Passionate about Data Quality
• Hands on experience in the design, development and maintenance of large scale distributed systems having high availability/scalability/performance
• Experience building ETL pipelines to handle large volumes of data
• Very strong coding skills in Java and/or Scala
• High degree of proficiency with Linux
• Skills in writing SQL

Bonus for having experience with:

• Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Hadoop HDFS/MR, Zookeeper, Yarn, Flume, Kafka, Hive, JSON, AVRO, ORC
• Real world experience with MPP architecture, columnar data warehouse design and data analytics