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Favorited - Santa Monica, CA, USA - In-office - posted 2026-08-20

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Salary: USD 145,000 - 185,000 / annual

Favorited is building a digital community platform that goes beyond content consumption to enable connection, engagement, and play. The company empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections within gaming and interactive communities. This is a 0-to-1 data engineering role for someone with proven experience standing up data environments for live-service, consumer-focused products. You'll be responsible for building the foundational data infrastructure that powers critical areas including Trust & Safety, Fraud detection, and comprehensive user, creator, and application analytics. Key responsibilities include: - Building and scaling data infrastructure from the ground up to support a rapidly growing consumer product - Developing data systems that enable Trust & Safety, fraud detection, and multi-dimensional analytics - Creating reliable data pipelines and foundational datasets for product, engineering, and operational decision-making - Partnering closely with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions - Supporting analytics across user behavior, creator engagement, application performance, and platform health - Establishing strong standards for data quality, reliability, documentation, and accessibility - Building systems that evolve with a rapidly changing live-service product and growing data volumes - Identifying opportunities to improve how teams access, understand, and act on data - Operating autonomously to identify high-impact problems and drive projects from concept through implementation Required qualifications include 5+ years in data engineering, data infrastructure, analytics engineering, or related roles. You should have proven experience building 0-to-1 data environments for consumer products, supporting live-service products with rapidly changing requirements, and strong understanding of data pipelines, modeling, and infrastructure. The ideal candidate operates with high autonomy and ownership, has excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and brings a product-oriented mindset. Nice-to-have experience includes Trust & Safety or fraud detection work, background with gaming/social/livestreaming products, building systems for millions of users, real-time or event-driven architectures, and developing analytics for both internal and customer-facing products.

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