Gala Games is hiring a
Remote Data Architect
\nGala\n\nGala is creating entertainment that empowers on the blockchain. Across our family of brands, including Games, Music, Film, and VOX, we're empowering creators and fans to build the future of entertainment.\n\nPowered by talent from around the globe, our fully remote organization believes in making bold moves to create products that have never been seen in the marketplace. Gala was founded by Eric Schiermeyer (gaming legend and co-founder of Zynga) and Michael McCarthy (the Creative Director behind viral gaming hits such as Farmville 2). Since then, Gala has grown to be a leader in Web3 entertainment.\n\nUnder the Gala brand, we have a growing roster of reputable partners across Gaming and Entertainment, including DreamWorks, AMC, and NBCU. Plus, legendary game developers Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and music greats like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kings of Leon, and BT.\n\nOur values are based on openness and ownership and the ability to deliver games, experiences, and opportunities to people worldwide. We are breaking down barriers to bring our communities joy, entertainment, and real-world value.\n\nAt Gala, we work remotely with flexibility; we have a great time with our colleagues and love getting things done. While working here, you'll imagine and create new and exciting things for the world to enjoy. Your talents and efforts will improve our audiences' lives in the real world.\n\nAnd this is just the beginningโฆ\nThe Role\n\n\nGala is looking for a Data Architect to lead engineering for its analytics team. Gala is at the forefront of creating innovative web3 experiences and deals with a large number of disparate entertainment products that are disrupting engagement in the web3 space with Games, Music and Film. This involves decision making that are data-critical with low failure tolerance and high usability. The ideal candidate has built an analytics platforms used by dozens of product managers and analysts churning through Petabytes of engagement data. \n\nYou will be a part of a company of super-achievers who work together to bring forth the evolution of entertainment. The ideal candidate has prior game dev experience, excellent people skills, business acumen, and an exemplary work ethic. We want someone with experience and passion for web3, cryptocurrency, and NFTs. We would love someone with a deep passion for games, strong product management skills, and an impressive track record for working in a fast-paced, evolving, creative-minded environment.\nResponsibilities\n\n\n\n\n* Build and maintain simple and sturdy data pipelines that scale horizontally (number of products and type of products) and vertically (data volume).\n\n* Optimize and refactor existing pipelines to improve business use-case and reduce management costs & overheads.\n\n* Build and maintain reporting tools for effective analytical decision making for in-house teams and external teams.\n\n* Establish observability, security procedures and failure recovery procedures.\n\n* Maintain documentation and tech specs (including performance benchmarks).\n\n* Coach and manage 1-3 engineers.\n\n* Oversee the confluence of web3 and web2 analytics.\n\n\n\nEssential Skills and Qualifications\n\n\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering; masters in Computer Science / Data Systems preferred.\n\n* 8+ years of hands-on software building experience significantly back-end.\n\n* 4+ years of data engineering experience, with 2+ in companies > 200 employees.\n\n* 2+ years of experience mentoring junior engineers.\n\n* Expertise in database science (including expertise in SQL), bigdata, columnar data warehouses, data warehouse design and management.\n\n* Experience handling large volumes of data (~1B data points/day) ingested across 10-100 sources transformed across 10-100 ETLs.\n\n* Fluent with open-source data streams and their respective IaaS implementations.\n\n* Hands-on experience building web scrapers and working with scraping tools.\n\n* Hands-on experience with reporting technologies and tools.\n\n* Proficient in designing data models (catalogs, schemas) that suite business needs.\n\n* Basic understanding of blockchain concepts.\n\n* Self-motivated, stellar work ethic, fun collaborator\n\nExcited by problem-solving\n\n\nFearless\n\n\n\nNice-to-Have Skills and Qualifications\n\n\n\n* Fluency in blockchain concepts.\n\n* Fluency in databricks and redshift; devops experience.\n\n* Experience growing an analytics setup from 10x to 100x, rearchitecting it without loss in QoS.\n\n* Experience working successfully in a remote environment\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n#LI-RD1\n#LI-Remote\n\n \n\nGala is an equal-opportunity employer and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.\n\nWe are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.\n\nWe aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.\n\nEmployee Benefits\n\n\n* Competitive Salary\n\n* Flexible Working Hours\n\n* Unlimited PTO\n\n* Fully Remote and Location Independence\n\n* US Based Employees 100% covered for employees (Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance)\n\n* Paid Parental Leave\n\n* Employee Assistance Program and several more\n\n\n\nNEXT STEPS\n\n\nIf you have the experience, passion, and drive to join our team, then please submit a resume by clicking the apply button below!\n\n\n\nGala does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes from vendors including, and without limitation, search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. Gala will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Web3 and DevOps jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide