Data Architect

Gala

Greenbrae, CA

Vision , Medical , Dental , Paid Time Off
Full-Time

Job Description

Gala

Gala 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.

Powered by talent from around the globe, we believe 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.

Under 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.

Our 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.

At Gala, we work 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.

And this is just the beginning…

The Role

Gala 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.

You 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.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain simple and sturdy data pipelines that scale horizontally (number of products and type of products) and vertically (data volume).
Optimize and refactor existing pipelines to improve business use-case and reduce management costs & overheads.
Build and maintain reporting tools for effective analytical decision making for in-house teams and external teams.
Establish observability, security procedures and failure recovery procedures.
Maintain documentation and tech specs (including performance benchmarks).
Coach and manage 1-3 engineers.
Oversee the confluence of web3 and web2 analytics.

Essential Skills and Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering; masters in Computer Science / Data Systems preferred.
8+ years of hands-on software building experience significantly back-end.
4+ years of data engineering experience, with 2+ in companies > 200 employees.
2+ years of experience mentoring junior engineers.
Expertise in database science (including expertise in SQL), bigdata, columnar data warehouses, data warehouse design and management.
Experience handling large volumes of data (~1B data points/day) ingested across 10-100 sources transformed across 10-100 ETLs.
Fluent with open-source data streams and their respective IaaS implementations.
Hands-on experience building web scrapers and working with scraping tools.
Hands-on experience with reporting technologies and tools.
Proficient in designing data models (catalogs, schemas) that suite business needs.
Basic understanding of blockchain concepts.
Self-motivated, stellar work ethic, fun collaborator
Excited by problem-solving
Fearless

Nice-to-Have Skills and Qualifications

Fluency in blockchain concepts.
Fluency in databricks and redshift; devops experience.
Experience growing an analytics setup from 10x to 100x, rearchitecting it without loss in QoS.
Experience working successfully in a remote environment

#LI-Onsite

Gala is an equal-opportunity employer and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.

We 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.

We 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.

Employee Benefits

Competitive Salary
Unlimited PTO for our U.S.-based staff
US Based Employees 100% covered for employees (Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance)
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Program and several more

NEXT STEPS

If you have the experience, passion, and drive to join our team, then please submit a resume by clicking the apply button below!

Gala 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.