Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer — Scale Data & Security

Scopely; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the data platform that powers analytics across multiple games. You will lead secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure, partnering with data, security, and governance teams.

The role emphasizes reliability, least-privilege access, and automation to enable data teams to work at scale. You will contribute to platform roadmaps, improve monitoring and incident response, and mentor others while advancing

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production cloud or data platforms, including safe releases and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate shared GCP and BigQuery infrastructure using Terraform, automated checks, and CI/CD.
• Build scalable, self-service platform capabilities that enable data teams to develop, deploy, and operate workloads with less manual support.
• Improve user and service account access, ensuring least-privilege principles and dependable approval, review, and revocation processes.
• Translate Security and Governance requirements into practical controls for sensitive data and data sharing.
• Improve Airflow and Cloud Composer reliability through troubleshooting, staged upgrades, and tested recovery processes.
• Improve cloud data platform performance and cost efficiency using workload and capacity insights.
• Build actionable monitoring and alerts, investigate incidents, and implement improvements to prevent recurring failures.
• Partner with teams to understand their needs, investigate platform challenges, evaluate potential solutions, and help shape the technical roadmap.
• Make platform workflows easier to adopt and operate through documentation, runbooks, and mentoring.
• Provide infrastructure, access controls, and shared tooling that help teams use data safely and reliably at scale.

Skills

English communication

Security & governance

Least-privilege access

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

IAM

Cloud Storage

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Airflow

Cloud Composer

Dagster

Looker

dbt

Fivetran

Cube

Job description

Scopely is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the data platform that powers analytics across multiple games. You will lead secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure, partnering with data, security, and governance teams.

The role emphasizes reliability, least-privilege access, and automation to enable data teams to work at scale. You will contribute to platform roadmaps, improve monitoring and incident response, and mentor others while advancing