Lead Data Engineer

About us:

Arcade is a global mobile game publisher partnering with creative studios to bring fun, high-quality titles to players worldwide. We empower game creators to reach global audiences through data-driven publishing, creative excellence, and deep player insights. Our vision is to become a leading global powerhouse in digital entertainment, thus inspiring joy, creativity, and connection through play that challenges conventions and delights audiences everywhere.

We are part of the AI.Tech Group, which also includes Media.net in its portfolio. Media.net is one of the worlds largest independent contextual advertising businesses, with one of the industrys most comprehensive advertising technology portfolios.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact in the company, then Arcade is the perfect place for you. Join us, and let's create the future of gaming together!

Role & Responsibilities - What you will do:

As a Lead Data Engineer at Arcade, you will be a foundational member of our data platform team, responsible for designing and building the core data infrastructure to process billions of daily players, transactions and marketing events. These data models will enable real-time game analytics, LiveOps, user acquisition, and experimentation which is scalable across multiple games.

This is a hands-on role with high ownership, where youll work in a fast-moving environment and make architectural decisions that directly impact how Arcade scales as a publisher.

Your missions will be the following:

• Data Pipeline Development: Designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and load in-game, user, and marketing data.
• Data Modeling & Architecture: Creating robust data models and schemas optimized for analytics, BI, and AI-driven insights across multiple games.
• Cloud Platform Management: Designing and operating cloud data platforms (currently centered on GCP, with flexibility to integrate other services as needed) to ensure high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Data Quality & Monitoring: Monitoring system health, managing data validation, and ensuring high-quality data for BI dashboards (e.g. Looker, Tableau).
• Collaboration: Translate game developers, data scientists, and marketers requirements into scalable data systems and self-serve analytics.

What Were Looking For:

• Experience: 5-8 years in data engineering, or 3-5 years with strong ownership of production systems, preferably in gaming or high-volume environments.
• Programming Languages: Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Big Data Technologies: Experience with events-driven data processing (Spark, Hadoop, and streaming technologies like Kafka).
• Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience with one of AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
• Domain Knowledge: Understanding of mobile gaming or consumer app metrics (ARPU, LTV, Retention, UA analytics).

What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)

• Reliable ingestion of game, UA, and monetization data with clear ownership.
• Analytics-ready datasets used by product and LiveOps teams.
• Clear data quality checks and monitoring in place.
• Improved speed and confidence in decision-making across teams.

Why Join Arcade

• Opportunity to build a data platform from the ground up
• Direct impact on how games are launched, scaled, and monetized
• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture with real ownership
• Backed by AI.Tech and Media.nets scale and engineering rigor

Our Culture - Who we are :

Arcade is a global team of passionate gamers, creators, and data-driven thinkers shaping the future of mobile entertainment. We move fast, think boldly, and have fun while building games the world loves. Our culture thrives on creativity, collaboration, and accountability. We encourage everyone to take initiative, explore bold ideas, and make a real impact.

Our Core Values

Disruptive | Humble | Ambitious | Entrepreneurial | Accountable | Data-Driven

Benefits

We at Media.net follow a Total Rewards philosophy that includes a market competitive approach to compensation and benefits, progressive people-centric policies, and recognition programs to bring out the best in you.

• Our excellent benefits include everything from comprehensive medical and life insurance to flexible work styles, hours, and leave options.
• Our workspaces are comfortable and fun, complete with bean bag chairs, ping pong tables, and all the snacks you can eat.
• Our benefits program is also designed to provide an overarching support system that the team can lean on, as and when they need it.
• All our teams are expected to work 80% of the time a month from office and utilize 20% remote flexibility based on business needs