Staff Data Platform Engineer

Staff Data Platform Engineer

As a Staff Data Platform Engineer, you will contribute to architecting and building the modern Data platform at PrizePicks to scale and productionize our core data engineering, data analytics, and machine learning capabilities. Your work will directly impact key metrics like Time-to-Bet, Deposit Velocity, and Platform Integrity by integrating robust, low-latency ML models across our sports betting and daily fantasy ecosystems.

What You’ll Do

• Build Scalable Data Platform: Design and build the Data platform for Batch and Streaming use cases. You will build and maintain a platform with cutting edge technologies and enable data users by building data catalog and data lineage capabilities. Architect an end-to-end data platform, making improvements for automation & scaling, and enforcing robust data security architectures and controls.
• Real-Time Data Platform at Scale: Build a platform for deploying low-latency services to pipe data for streaming or near real-time use cases. Power real-time decisions across the platform, from dynamic oddsmaking and risk analysis to smart deposit defaults.
• Data Platform Ops: Champion best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for Data pipeline deployment. Enable complete observability for batch and streaming data platforms and ensure 99.99% availability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Backend Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science teams to operationalize complex Data engineering and Data science capabilities—balancing platform stability, architectural standards, and rapid iteration.

What You Have

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, with a proven track record of deploying and maintaining scalable Data platforms in high-traffic production environments.
• Proficient in streaming architectures (Kafka/Flink/PubSub) and building low-latency services to serve stream ingestion and processing (<100ms model inference).
• Proficient with Containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, and cluster-level management.
• Extensive experience in Big Data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka or Kinesis, Argo/Airflow, Polaris, OpenMetadata, Iceberg, Lakehouse, Redis, Elasticsearch, Databases. Experience with building REST APIs, package management, and libraries.
• Deep experience building a platform for managing the full Data lifecycle, including setting up a data exploration environment.
• Expert in coding with Python and Go. Deep experience with Cloud services, preferably GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud Functions, GKE) or AWS equivalents.
• Excellent communication skills, stakeholder management, and outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record as a key contributor to projects through the entire development lifecycle from concept to release.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience implementing data platform infrastructure while enforcing best practices for large-scale data platform deployment.
• Designed and built scalable, fault-tolerant data storage, distributed processing systems, and data lakes at massive scale (Apache Spark, Flink, Trino, Presto, or Kafka).
• Built internal tools for data pipeline authoring, orchestration, and AI-assisted analytics to boost developer productivity.
• Established policies and tooling for data quality, compliance, lineage, and secure access control.
• Enabled self-service for Data teams for pipeline development and deployment.
• Background in Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS), oddsmaking, high-frequency trading, or similar domain expertise.