Data Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Department: Information Delivery

 Who We Are:

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.

The Challenge

The Marketing Technology team works alongside the Labels (2K, Zynga, Rockstar Games, Social Point) Marketing, Community, and PR teams, managing and supporting the underlying technology stack used for Paid, Owned, and Earned marketing activity.

As a Data Engineer, you'll be a hands-on member of our MarTech team — building and maintaining the data pipelines and tooling that power marketing analytics and targeting. You'll work within established architectural patterns, contribute to design discussions, and grow your skills in distributed data processing in a creative and fast-moving environment.

You will build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines and contribute to the data systems that support marketing across our Labels. Working under the technical direction of senior engineers, you'll turn requirements into well-tested, production-ready data solutions and steadily take on greater ownership.

What You’ll Take On

• Build and maintain stable, scalable data pipelines that cleanse, structure, and integrate data sets into an accessible format for end-user analysis and targeting, across both stream and batch workflows.
• Contribute to improvements in data quality, monitoring, and availability, and help onboard new data sources in collaboration with the team.
• Implement data quality checks and tests within the team's data quality framework.
• Maintain accurate entries in the enterprise-wide data dictionary for the datasets and pipelines you own.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for the data solutions you build, following team standards.
• Test and monitor data for anomalies, troubleshoot issues, and resolve or escalate them appropriately.
• Participate in code reviews and follow established coding standards and source-management practices.

What You Bring

• 2+ years of working proficiency with SQL.
• Working proficiency with Python; exposure to PySpark on Databricks (or a strong willingness and aptitude to ramp up quickly).
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Some experience working with large data sets and distributed processing (Spark / Hive / Hadoop), or solid understanding of the underlying concepts.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines in a production or production-like environment.
• Ability to test and monitor data for anomalies and to troubleshoot pipeline issues.
• Understanding of standard software engineering practices: version control, code reviews, testing, and agile workflows.
• Good collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work as part of a distributed, cross-functional team.

Great to have

• Hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Exposure to CDPs or DMPs.
• Awareness of GDPR / CCPA compliance considerations.
• Familiarity with Marketing Technologies.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Previous gaming industry experience.

What We Offer You:

• Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
• Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
• Work Hard, Enjoy Life. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles – through corporate boot camp classes, company parties, our Office gaming spaces, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
• Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to; Discretionary bonus, Provident fund contributions, 1+5 medical insurance + top up options and access to online Doctor consultation App, Employee assistance program, 3X CTC Life Assurance, 3X CTC Personal accident insurance, childcare services, 20 days holiday + statutory holidays,
• Perks. Gym reimbursement up to INR1150 per month, wellbeing program with the chance to earn up to $93 per annum, charitable giving program, access to learning platforms, employee discount program’s plus free games and events!

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.