Underdog Sports
Senior Data Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines and datasets to support analytics, data science, and marketing teams. Candidates should have extensive experience with cloud-native environments, data transformation tools, and streaming data infrastructure. The position emphasizes collaboration across teams, system improvement, and ensuring data quality. It offers a flexible, virtual-first culture with comprehensive employee benefits.
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Job Description
We’re Underdog.
The fastest-growing sports gaming company, ever. We’re here to make sports more fun. We pair intuitive user experiences with innovative game designs to build the best experience for sports fans in America.
Since 2020, we’ve launched four of today’s most widely played fantasy games, and built the Underdog Sportsbook entirely in-house with our own tech. We move fast, act with urgency, and create experiences you won’t find anywhere else.
With a $1.2 billion valuation and backing from investors like BlackRock, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, Adam Schefter, and more, we’re just getting started.
At Underdog, we play and win as a team. We take chances and are unafraid to attack hard problems. We face challenges with ambition and optimism. We play for the love of the game.
We’re Underdog. And winning as an Underdog is just more fun.
Join us.
As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Engineering team at Underdog, you’ll focus on building robust data pipelines that empower cross-functional stakeholders including Marketing, Product, Analytics, and Data Science with reliable, actionable data. You’ll work closely with these teams to understand their data needs and deliver scalable solutions that support their top initiatives and priorities. This role blends hands-on pipeline development with shaping the future of Underdog’s evolving data platform.
About the role
- You’ll be developing data pipelines and maintaining production quality datasets that support Underdog’s analytics, data science, and marketing teams
- Design, build, and optimize scalable data platform infrastructure to support batch and real-time data processing and storage in the cloud
- Collaborate with analytics, data scientists, engineers, and other business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of the pipelines and platforms
- Perform validation and build data quality checks on production datasets and ensure there are minimal data quality issues
- Communicate continuously about progress, blockers, and resolution steps to all relevant stakeholders
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building scalable data pipelines in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- 3+ years of experience using dbt, Flink, or Spark for data transformations and BI tools such as Sigma or Looker
- Advanced proficiency with Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with streaming data infrastructure such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, GCP Datastream or AWS Kinesis
- Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK)
- Strong ownership mindset; you’re focused on delivering results in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- A proactive problem solver who finds and implements opportunities to improve systems and processes
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams
Even better if you have
- Strong interest in sports
- Prior experience in the sports betting industry
- Experience working highly regulated industries and familiarity with data privacy and compliance frameworks (e.g. GDPR, CCPA)
- Knowledge of ML concepts, with some experience in building ML platforms
Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $190,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.
What we can offer you:
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
#LI-REMOTE
This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.
Underdog Sports
A fantasy sports platform offering daily contests and games for sports enthusiasts to compete and win prizes.
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