Staff Data Engineer - League of Legends

Riot’s Data Engineers harness petabytes of data and state-of-the-art processing technologies to build products that elevate the player experience at massive scale.

As a Staff Data Engineer on the League of Legends Data Engineering team, you will collaborate with product managers, analysts, and engineers to ensure our data is reliable, performant, and scalable. You will design and champion data standards to ensure our systems grow with our player base. This role will be based out of our Los Angeles headquarters. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead the implementation of architectures that support advanced analytics and machine learning models
• Develop scalable, medallion-oriented data models that cater to both current and future needs where data volume grows significantly.
• Design and implement ETL processes and data integration strategies to handle diverse data sources and formats
• Liaison between our team, the League of Legends team, and service teams as well as central platform teams to understand their needs and provide solutions
• Analyze existing systems for bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and implement solutions to optimize data flow and processing for high-volume, complex datasets
• Lead initiatives in data governance, data quality,