Live Game SRE & Data Platform Engineer

First Fun; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

First Fun is seeking a Data Platform Operations Engineer in Singapore to maintain and optimize live game services and data pipelines. You will monitor performance, manage databases, and ensure data flows reliably and securely across environments.

Your responsibilities include Kafka clusters, Databricks lakehouse operations, job scheduling, and collaborating with the data team to fix failures and maintain data quality. The role emphasizes automation and cost control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field.
• At least 3 years in systems, database, or data platform operations.
• Experience with Linux system administration and incident resolution.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Databricks, Spark, and cloud data platforms.
• Proficient in Python or Shell scripting and SQL, plus Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily maintenance, monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization for game servers and live services to ensure stability and availability.
• Manage and maintain game databases, including capacity and performance monitoring, backup and recovery, access control, high availability, and troubleshooting.
• Maintain game data collection pipelines, including Kafka clusters and producers/consumers.
• Maintain servers, storage, and ingestion components; monitor latency, backlogs, write status, and data integrity.
• Databricks lakehouse operations: compute resources, job scheduling, access control, monitoring, troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with data team to resolve job failures, data delays, missing data, and basic data validation issues.
• Develop operations automation, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms.
• Contribute to capacity planning, cost management, and security standards.

Skills

Linux administration

Performance monitoring

Incident response

High availability

SQL

Python

Shell scripting

Prometheus

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Databricks

Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Linux

Job description

First Fun is seeking a Data Platform Operations Engineer in Singapore to maintain and optimize live game services and data pipelines. You will monitor performance, manage databases, and ensure data flows reliably and securely across environments.

Your responsibilities include Kafka clusters, Databricks lakehouse operations, job scheduling, and collaborating with the data team to fix failures and maintain data quality. The role emphasizes automation and cost control.