Staff Data Engineer
GameChanger Remote - US · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- GameChanger Remote - US
About GameChanger
- We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
- So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
- The Position:
- Every pitch scored, game streamed, and subscription started in GameChanger becomes data that the rest of the company runs on. The Data Engineering team builds the platform that collects that data for analytics use cases and puts it to work for our commercial and product teams. As a Staff Data Engineer, you’ll set technical direction, lead complex initiatives across teams, and stay hands-on building data systems and self-service frameworks. You’ll partner with engineering and business teams to anticipate their needs, strengthen the platform, and enable new capabilities. You’ll also lead the adoption of AI-assisted development practices that help data teams deliver faster and with greater confidence.
About the role
- As a Staff Data Engineer at GameChanger, you will set technical direction, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and stay hands-on building data systems and self-service frameworks.
- The Data Engineering team builds the platform that collects data for analytics use cases and puts it to work for commercial and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Set multi-quarter technical direction for the data platform, in partnership with the Data Engineering Manager.
- Turn project ideas into execution plans and drive clarity and alignment on scope on large ambiguous cross-functional projects.
- Build relationships and regularly meet with technical and non-technical partners to support their goals and understand where your intervention is a priority.
- Lead advocacy conversations and training to influence adoption.
- Architect and build scalable, robust, and efficient data platforms serving analytic and operational needs across the organization.
- Review relevant specs and PRs across the company to influence strong design decisions.
- Champion the changes that will enable AI-assisted self-service analytics and AI-assisted development.
- Improve existing systems' performance, observability, reliability, and scalability, identifying new infrastructure and software patterns as needed.
- Share your knowledge through technical documentation, code reviews, tech talks, mentoring, and proposing new standards.
- Take part in DE's on-call rotation and debug and troubleshoot complex problems across multiple systems and services.
Requirements
- 8+ years building data or backend systems, including experience with leading technical work that spans multiple teams
- Expertise with AI-assisted software development
- Expertise in Python for data pipelines and maintainable production software
- Expertise with SQL and cloud data warehousing in Snowflake or BigQuery
- Experience building software systems, or partnering closely with the teams who do
- Proficient with containers and orchestration tools, preferably Airflow
- Proficient with IaC tools like Terraform
- Proficient with K8s/Kafka and streaming data pipelines
- Proficient with cloud computing services such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
Preferred qualifications
- Prior experience with building CDC platforms, front-end behavior tracking, MLOps platforms, or AI self-service tooling
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid volunteer opportunities
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years
- WFH stipend - $500 annually
- Learning stipend - $500 annually
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans offered through Vanguard with immediate company match
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
Workplace
- Remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City
- Work remotely throughout the US or from our office in Manhattan, NY
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Airflow
- Terraform
- Kafka
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
