Staff Data Platform Engineer

This role designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and infrastructure on the Data Platform team. It involves optimizing data processing, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with data scientists and analysts to support business needs.

This Staff Software Engineer role owns the architecture of the data ingestion and integration platform, setting technical direction for event-driven and batch processing systems. The engineer defines standards for observability, data freshness, and failure handling, and leads design across team boundaries. Requires 8+ years of experience, deep Python proficiency, and a track record of designing API-based ETL systems at scale with orchestration and containerized infrastructure.

This role designs and builds scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support PENN Entertainment's analytics and data science needs. The Staff Data Engineer will lead technical initiatives, ensure data quality, and mentor junior engineers in best practices.

This hands-on developer-architect role owns the technical design of Azure-first data and AI platforms, defining reusable patterns and reference architectures. The lead architect proves designs in code using Terraform, Azure Databricks, and Synapse, and prototypes AI solutions like RAG and agentic workflows, while mentoring teams and reviewing code/IaC.

Develop and deploy machine learning models to optimize advertising performance, audience targeting, and campaign outcomes. Work on brand-focused engineering initiatives, collaborating with data scientists and engineers to integrate models into production systems and continuously improve model accuracy and efficiency.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and analytics infrastructure to power advertising insights and reporting. Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to ensure data quality, reliability, and accessibility for business intelligence and machine learning use cases.

Lead engineering for the Karlo platform, owning technical architecture, system design, and delivery of new platform features. Drive innovation and collaborate closely with product and design teams to align technical roadmap with business goals and ensure platform scalability and reliability.