PrizePicks

Staff Data Platform Engineer

United States full-time Senior $200,000 - $220,000
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Salary listed Curated
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About the role

At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?

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. You will be architecting 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 platform for deploying low-latency services to pipe data for streaming or near real time use cases. You will power real-time decisions across the platform, from dynamic oddsmaking and risk analysis to smart deposit defaults.

Data Platform Ops: You will champion best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for Data pipeline deployment. You will enable complete observability for batch and streaming data platform and ensure the availability of 99.99%

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, which will serve model inference in

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Technology & IT Data Analysis Sales Staff Data Platform Senior level

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Staff Data Platform Engineer role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at PrizePicks?
  3. Which of Data Analysis, Sales and Staff have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Data Analysis, Sales and Staff.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Staff Data Platform Engineer role because I can bring practical experience in Data Analysis, Sales and Staff, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes PrizePicks needs from this hire.

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