Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide. Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry, providing the ultimate platform for competitive mobile games. By fostering social competition within games, Skillz empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.
At Skillz, we firmly believe that everyone is born with unique skills and deserves to experience an epic win. We understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. That's why we passionately champion game developers and players alike, empowering them to unleash their full potential through the power of competition.
- Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value and make a difference in the world.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your entire family.
- Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.
- Perks: We believe in enhancing your work experience. Enjoy daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, Friday Happy Hours, insurance, and many more. We also offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.
- Pioneers of Skill-Based Competition: Skillz is not just any company in the gaming industry; we are the pioneers of skill-based competition, partnered with industry titans like UFC, NFL, T-Mobile, Buzztime, while also hosting renowned events like the Game Developer Conference (GDC). Join us in transforming the way people play games and building the home of competition for all.
- Impact Beyond Gaming: Skillz harnesses the power of its platform to support nonprofit organizations such as Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, the NAACP, and more. By participating in Skillz tournaments, you can make a difference and contribute to causes you care about.
- Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.
- Talent Magnet: Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. Our team includes experts from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, and more.
The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books combined, with over 3 billion active gamers playing monthly and over 25 million active developers worldwide. Mobile gaming, in particular, is the fastest-growing segment, projected to reach $300 billion by 2025. At Skillz, you have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this exciting industry and shape its future.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform, you'll join the Data Platform & Engineering team that builds and runs the data systems behind Skillz. These systems move data from across the business into the warehouse in real time, turn it into trusted datasets, and power the analytics, machine learning, and player segmentation that teams across the company rely on. You'll help operate this platform, make it faster and more reliable, and extend it with new capabilities.
The platform is a large, live system that spans real-time ingestion, change-data-capture, the warehouse, streaming segmentation, and production ML. Part of the role is going deep on what already exists and improving it. A bigger part is helping move the platform toward an AI-native way of working, where LLMs and agents help run, monitor, and optimize the pipelines themselves.
What you'll do
- Design and build data services and pipelines, and evolve the platform as the business grows.
- Move data in real time with streaming pipelines and sub-second segmentation that drive live product decisions.
- Own reliability, performance, and cost across the warehouse fleet, and treat observability and efficiency as core engineering work.
- Bring AI into the platform: use LLMs for analytics, data quality, and pipeline automation, and help build production agents that operate parts of the platform on their own.
- Make data trustworthy and self-serve, and support the Business Intelligence and User Acquisition teams that depend on it.
Minimum qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, ideally data-intensive ones.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you write production-quality code in Python, Java, or Go, are fluent in SQL, and care about testing, code review, and system design.
- Hands-on production experience with distributed data systems and a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar) at meaningful scale.
- Experience designing and building scalable services that move, transform, and serve data reliably.
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Jenkins) and stream processing tools (Kafka, Spark, or Flink).
- A track record of ramping on a large existing codebase and improving it. You can debug, refactor, and extend systems you didn't write, not just build from scratch.
- Hands-on production use of LLMs. You've shipped an LLM-backed system (prompts, tool or function calling, retrieval) with evals, guardrails, and a clear failure mode, not just prototypes.
- Able to work in a hybrid model out of our Bangalore office.
- Experience in the Gaming Industry (ideally).
- Proficient in Java (Spring Boot or similar framework) or Python (Flask or similar framework) for backend development.
- Experience building out segmentation platforms.
- Supported Business Intelligence and User Acquisition functions.
- Machine Learning (ML) experience.
- Experience with recognized industry patterns, methodologies, and techniques.
Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. Join our team and be part of the journey. We look forward to having you on board!
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
