Hiring: Principal Data Engineer -Teamfight Tactics Company: Riot Games Location: Los Angeles, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:18:37 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Airflow, Databricks, GCP, Go, Python, SQL, Scala, Spark, dbt About the job Experience: •8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or a related discipline, with demonstrated principal-level scope. Required Skills: •Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for TFT’s data ecosystem in partnership with TFT and Riot Data Engineering leadership. •Design, build, and evolve scalable batch and near-real-time data systems supporting telemetry, player behavior, game operations, experimentation, insights, and player-facing features. •Establish and maintain data contracts across Data Engineering, Insights, Game Engineering, and Product, including event schemas, metric definitions, and accuracy expectations. •Partner with game teams early in feature development to design instrumentation, validate payloads, and make telemetry a tested part of feature readiness and launch criteria. •Own the reliability and operational health of critical TFT data products, including freshness, availability, accuracy, observability, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and root-cause analysis. •Lead data modeling and warehouse architecture across TFT, creating durable, well-documented sources of truth that serve multiple teams and use cases. •Establish standards for data governance, lineage, documentation, access, retention, lifecycle management, and compliance with applicable privacy requirements. •Reduce ambiguity by clarifying requirements, identifying risks, evaluating alternatives, and communicating tradeoffs across delivery speed, reliability, cost, and complexity. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. •Hands-on expertise in big-data technologies, including Python, GoLang, Spark, Scala, SQL, and tools like Airflow and DBT. •Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Databricks. •Demonstrated expertise in data modeling, schema design, data contracts, lineage, governance, and the development of durable sources of truth. •Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead complex initiatives across multiple teams, and make sound architecture and prioritization tradeoffs. •Strong cross-functional communication skills and experience partnering with engineering, product, analytics, insights, and other technical stakeholders. •Operational familiarity with Teamfight Tactics or strong curiosity about games, player behavior, and live-service operations. •Genuine player empathy, product sense, and pragmatic judgment in balancing player value, engineering quality, delivery, and operational risk. Compensation: •Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!