Platform Engineer

Description :

Responsibilities :

- Work as part of a software development team to contribute to current product development projects involving data and basketball statistics ingestion, storage, and analysis.

- Develop test-driven software features for enterprise-level software products and infrastructures.

- Contribute to full-stack cloud-based development projects that help build the next generation of fan-facing products.

- Investigate and resolve consumer-submitted software and data issues.

- Monitor live data delivery during games and respond confidently to outages and other issues if they arise.

- QA new stats-based digital products and features as part of the software release cycle.

- Perform data analysis tasks to support content and broadcast teams.

- Perform data entry tasks to both correct official data and create additional datasets for Machine Learning projects.

- Create and automate data reports for other departments.

- Work with other stakeholders to finalize technical plans and specifications for development projects.

- Contribute ideas for new products powered by our data so that we can better engage our fans.

Requirements :

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Perform quality work and communicate effectively in a remote and asynchronous environment without direct supervision.

- Programming experience and/or coursework in Python, C#, .NET, JavaScript, SQL, or Java.

- Backend experience developing API systems and infrastructure.

- Full-stack programming experience with cloud-native applications.

- Experience with ingesting, storing, and retrieving data from databases.

- General understanding of DevOps best practices.

- Experience with Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, Databricks, Apache Spark, Spark SQL, and/or PySpark is a plus.

- Experience with Amazon Web Services is a plus.

- Previous Apache Airflow experience is a plus.

- Practical experience with data analysis techniques, including modeling and clustering, is a plus.

- Experience crafting data visualizations is a plus.

- Basketball experience is a plus.

- Display an aptitude for taking the initiative to go above and beyond.

- Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.

- Ready and willing to learn from other members of our team.

- Detail-oriented with a desire for seeing projects through to completion.

- Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.