[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @TKO

Role Description

The Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform is a hands-on engineering role at the center of TKO's data estate. Day to day, the role owns pipelines, data models, and Snowflake infrastructure, and resolves the issues that surface across TKO's data workflows. Over the next two years, the role also helps build the platform those workflows will move onto.

TKO today runs several data platforms side by side — separate Snowflake accounts, two clouds, three orchestrators, and four reporting tools. The Platform Unification program consolidates that estate onto a single reference architecture.

The role sits within TKO's Enterprise Data organization, reports to the Manager, Data Engineering, and works closely with various teams.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership and Reliability
  • Own pipelines, data models, and platform reliability end to end.
  • Act as an escalation point for platform incidents.
  • Define and hold service levels for the pipelines the business depends on.
  • Provide debug, triage, support, and design guidance to engineers and analysts.
  • Share in the team's on-call and event-support rotation.
• Platform Unification and the North Star Architecture
  • Design and build the shared components of TKO's unified platform.
  • Lead Snowflake consolidation work as the separate accounts converge.
  • Retire duplicated tooling across the estate.
  • Build golden paths for onboarding and shipping models.
• Ingestion and Orchestration
  • Extend and maintain a shared Python ingestion library.
  • Run managed ingestion (Fivetran) as the default for supported SaaS sources.
  • Own Prefect on EKS.
  • Consolidate connector logic into a shared collect/ingest library.
• Snowflake Engineering and Cost
  • Administer Snowflake as a shared, multi-tenant platform.
  • Manage Snowflake objects declaratively in Terraform.
  • Own warehouse cost and provide defensible views of consumption.
• Infrastructure as Code and Delivery
  • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
  • Maintain CI/CD on GitHub Actions.
  • Raise the engineering bar through code review and documentation.
• Transformation and Data Modeling
  • Build and review dbt models against the canonical medallion.
  • Partner with Analytics Engineering and Data Science.
• Governance and Security, Applied as Code
  • Implement masking, tokenization, and row-access policies as code.
  • Maintain network policies and support access reviews.
• Enabling Analytics, ML, and AI
  • Keep the platform ready for workloads built on top of it.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tooling in daily development.
• Collaboration and Technical Influence
  • Work directly with global delivery partners.
  • Mentor engineers on the team.
  • Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating production data platforms.
• Deep hands-on Snowflake experience at an administrator level.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Production experience with a modern orchestrator.
• Hands-on infrastructure as code with Terraform on AWS.
• dbt at scale experience.
• Ownership of CI/CD for data systems.
• Experience with managed ingestion.
• Operational discipline with observability tooling.
• Demonstrated work on a platform migration or consolidation.
• A record of setting standards that other engineers adopt.
• Comfortable working alongside offshore and partner delivery teams.
• Clear written communication skills.
• Practical experience meeting data governance requirements preferred.
• Exposure to ML or AI workloads preferred.
• Experience in media, sports, entertainment, or consumer data environments preferred.

Benefits

• Health care.
• Retirement.
• Vacation and other paid time off.
• Short- and long-term incentives.
• Growth and developmental opportunities.

Company Description

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, WWE, and PBR, reaching 1 billion households across 210 countries.