Data Engineer

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. We develop and publish products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. Our strategy is to create hit entertainment experiences, delivered on every platform relevant to our audience through a variety of sound business models. Our pillars - creativity, innovation, and efficiency - guide us as we strive to create the highest quality, most captivating experiences for our consumers. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at http://www.take2games.com.

We are looking for a motivated and quality focused  Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team to design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable data pipelines.

The ideal candidate is a strong Python/PySpark developer equally comfortable with writing code and helping business teams understand data. A self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, ability to think big (while paying careful attention to detail) and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.
• Work with business teams and analysts to understand complex business rules and implement these for deriving insights.
• Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Performs data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues.
• Provide thought leadership and collaborate with other team members to continue to scale our architecture to evolve for the needs of tomorrow.
• Develop and support continuous integrations build and deployment processes using Jenkins, Docker, Git, etc.
• Define and implement monitoring and alerting policies for data solutions.
• Design and develop responsive, user-facing web applications using modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Build and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs that bridge back-end data services with front-end interfaces.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate wireframes and mockups into polished, accessible web interfaces that meet usability and performance standards.
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability across the full application stack.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions spanning both front-end and back-end components.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Python.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in using advanced SQL queries and writing/optimizing highly efficient SQL queries.
• 2+ years of working in AWS environment.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs is highly desirable.
• Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and/or HTML5 and frameworks such as React Js, Node, Angular, Vue.js and/or jQuery is highly desirable. 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building modern front-end applications using React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3, with a strong understanding of responsive and accessible design principles.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, with knowledge of API security best practices.
• Familiarity with front-end testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Comfortable working with business customers to collect requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied business domains.
• Knowledge of software coding practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an engineering or technical field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Engineering, or similar.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.