Data Engineer

Sorare; Paris; Hybride; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading fantasy sports gaming company in Paris is seeking a Data Engineer. You will design and maintain data platforms, ensuring data quality and compliance. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience and strong skills in Python, database technologies, and cloud systems. This role offers a dynamic environment and a hybrid work model.

Prestations

Health Care

Wellness Benefit

Commuter Benefits

Latest Tech

Lunch

Time Off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering.
• Strong experience in automation and data transformation.
• Ability to build production systems at scale.

Responsabilités

• Build and maintain a robust data platform.
• Collaborate with engineers to design data pipelines.
• Implement monitoring and quality checks for data flows.

Connaissances

Excellent communication skills in English

Experience with database query languages

Python programming skills

Production experience with data platforms

Experience with cloud providers (AWS)

Experience with CI/CD tools

Outils

Airflow

DBT

Postgres

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Our Mission

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience and marketplace featuring officially licensed digital player cards. With Sorare you build legacy teams - buying, selling, collecting and trading player cards and compete with them in free-to-play fantasy games to win rewards week over week and season over season, just like a professional sports owner.

Our Journey

Sorare was founded by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort in 2018 in Paris to bring sports fans across the globe closer to the players, teams, and leagues they love.

With 130-plus employees across France and US, Sorare is one of Europe's fastest-growing startups and recently raised a $680 million Series B funding round from world-class investors including SoftBank, Accel, and Benchmark. Sorare also has athletes Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Piqué, Blake Griffin, and Rudy Gobert among its investors, ambassadors, and advisors.

Our Values

• Own your game : Think and act like an owner, and expect your teammates to do the same. You are an "entrepreneur" empowered to make decisions and own the outcomes.
• Build with the fans, and for the fans : Have an obsession for high-quality user experiences. Engage our community with transparency to build trust and learn from the fans to deliver effective changes.
• Win as a team : We are all in this together as one team, win or lose. Inspire your teammates to always be better.

Please note that Sorare is a hybrid work company; employees are required to be in office 3 days a week.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team.

As a Data Engineer, you will own the design, implementation, and maintenance of our data platform infrastructure, data pipelines, modeling and governance frameworks. You'll be responsible for designing end-to-end data workflows, and enforcing data quality and access controls. You will also run exploratory analyses, and work closely with software engineers and data practitioners to ensure data systems align with product and business requirements. Be ready, things move quickly at Sorare as we work toward building a unique and category-leading game!

We're looking for teammates who like to get things done, work in a fast-paced environment, take ownership and autonomy for their work, and expect to learn a lot along the way.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a robust, scalable, and cost-effective data platform
• Collaborate with software engineers and other data practitioners to design pipelines that support business intelligence and product decisions
• Design, automate, and optimize data pipelines and processes that power dashboards and reports
• Model and organize large volumes of structured and unstructured data
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and quality checks to ensure reliable data flows
• Define and document a clear, consistent data taxonomy and governance framework
• Ensure data security, compliance, and appropriate access controls
• Create clear documentation and resources to support data self-service and onboarding

Requirements

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering
• Extensive knowledge of database query languages, database design, and internals knowledge of query planning
• Solid Python skills for data transformation, scripting, and automation. Ruby (on Rails) is a plus
• Production experience with data platforms and tools such as Airflow, DBT, Airbyte, and Looker
• Production experience with datastores such as Postgres and Snowflake (or similar)
• Experience working with cloud providers and systems, such as AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience with automation with CI / CD and other "as code" tools (terraform, helm)
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Experience building strong working relations with both data / business teams and engineering teams (SRE, backend, ...)
• Eager to learn and work in an environment with new technologies and paradigms

Perks

• Health Care : Great medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage fully covered by Sorare
• Wellness Benefit : Sorare contributes to employees wellness (60 euros gym membership reimbursement and sports classes in our office)
• Commuter Benefits : Sorare contributes to the cost of your commute with 100% of Navigo pass reimbursed
• Latest Tech : Sorare provides equipment such as laptop, monitor, etc.
• Lunch : Sorare will contribute to their employees lunch vouchers
• Time Off : we offer 5 weeks of paid holidays per year in addition to the national holidays and attached RTT

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to : race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.