Data Engineer

About Us

Chess.com is the platform of choice for tens of millions of chess players in 165 countries and in 70 languages! We are one of the largest gaming sites in the world where over 15 million games of chess are played daily by players who are deeply engaged in our playing and learning products. We have 300+ team members who work remotely across the world to make chess more fun and rewarding for our 60+ million users. We are the stewards of a game that has been growing in popularity every year for the past 1500 years, and we take that responsibility seriously. Chess deserves the very best, and we strive to deliver that. 

About You

You are a data nerd with strong engineering skills.  You have built and maintained data pipelines in production at large scale (We are a top-200 website) 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!

What You’ll Do

• Implement data pipelines from our many data sources into our data warehouse
• Build and support data aggregations and ensure data quality in our data warehouse
• Protect our players 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

Big Challenges

• We have a MASSIVE amount of games to store
• We have a MASSIVE amount of analysis being done on games
• We have a MASSIVE amount of activity to be logged and parsed for social feeds and product optimization

Preferred Skills

• Experience building and supporting data pipelines
• Experience with Dataflow & BigQuery or similar technology
• Experience with SQL and multiple databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity

• This is a full time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

Links

You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about 

We look forward to meeting you!