Data Engineer

Overview

1047 Games began with the simple principle that people should have fun while making great games. Bucking convention and driven by a passion to create the ultimate gaming experience, Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian founded 1047 Games in 2017 in their Stanford dorm room. Their love for arena shooters of the past drove them to create Splitgate, a unique sci-fi first-person shooter that adds portal guns to upend the genre.

What started as two computer science majors putting portals into a first-person shooter for a project demo has evolved into a VC-backed company which has raised more than $120MM in funding.

At 1047 Games, you’ll find a permanently remote, dedicated team of top-tier talent from some of the world’s biggest gaming and tech companies who share our founders’ vision. Grit, ingenuity, a desire to have fun, and a start up mentality define our crew. We are currently working on a brand new shooter in the Splitgate universe.

What We're Looking For

• A passionate engineer: You love to take on difficult, seemingly impossible technical problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them
• A hard worker: You love to put in the extra effort, not because you are told, but because you enjoy your work and know the impact of finishing the tasks on hand
• A passionate gamer: You are a gamer who grew up playing games and can recognize what separates exceptional games from the average ones. You understand the mindset of gamers which enables you to create and implement features that will further benefit the game

What You Will be Doing

• Implement a machine learning based Player Skill System
• Implement a real time analytics based Matchmaking System
• Design and implement real time data pipelines for ingest into our data warehouse
• Design, build, and optimize our new analytics layer to power in-game features and inform decision makers across the Game Design and Marketing teams

What You Will Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline 
• 4+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience solving impactful technical challenges; we look for people who can assess a challenge, craft a scalable architecture, and run with implementation
• Ability to serve as a component owner for software with a large user base, with focuses on maintainability and high reliability
• Proficiency in SQL-based data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake or AWS Redshift
• Familiarity with Node.js

What Will Help You Succeed

• Game development or industry-adjacent experience
• Experience working at small startups
• 1+ years experience in data visualization or full-stack data-centric roles
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platform providers