Staff Engineer - Data Platform

SpinQuest is a social casino platform creating scalable, real-time sweepstakes gaming experiences. The Staff Engineer, Data Platform will provide technical leadership for data foundations, designing and evolving real-time and batch pipelines, canonical datasets, transactional systems, analytics, and compliance workflows while influencing engineering, product, security, and compliance teams.

Responsibilities:

• Senior Individual Contributor role
• High-ownership, low-process, high-trust environment with strong emphasis on production quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Own and evolve the data platform architecture supporting real-time and batch workloads. Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines for gameplay, payments, and analytics
• Define canonical datasets, data models, and golden paths for data consumption
• Ensure data correctness, auditability, and traceability in regulated environments
• Define SLAs, monitoring, and operational standards for data systems
• Serve as escalation point for complex data incidents
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture across teams
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development, testing, analysis, and documentation

Requirements:

• 8+ years building large-scale data systems in production environments
• Expertise in data platform architecture, pipelines, and distributed systems
• Strong SQL plus proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala
• Experience operating data platforms with SLAs, on-call rotation, and compliance requirements
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and large-scale data systems, including:Workflow orchestration: Apache AirflowDistributed processing: Apache Spark, Apache Flink. Streaming & messaging: Apache Kafka. Query & analytics engines: Trino, Apache Pinot Data languages: SQL, Python, Scala, Java. Cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems
• Operational tooling for monitoring, alerting, and data quality
• Applied use of AI/LLMs and agents for data analysis, incident response, and developer productivity
• FinTech, gaming, payments, or regulated environment experience
• Real-time streaming, CDC, or event-driven architectures
• Experience stewarding canonical datasets and data governance
• Passion for gaming or entertainment platforms