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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Triumph'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Triumph

- **Company:** Triumph
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade/f29d2425-ee54-4bea-b0ce-5ac93e5ce2d5/application

**Skills:** SQL, Python, BigQuery, Data Warehousing, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Data Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Snowflake, Redshift, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink, Fivetran, Statsig, Streaming Data Systems

> As the first dedicated data engineering hire, you will own the full data stack, including ingestion, transformation, warehouse architecture, and pipeline reliability. You will build robust data pipelines, real-time streaming infrastructure, and reverse ETL systems to support a high-growth gaming platform.

## Job description

## The Role

As our first dedicated data engineering hire, you'll own the full data stack: ingestion, transformation, warehouse architecture, pipeline reliability, and the systems that connect model outputs back to production. You'll work at the intersection of a quantitative strategy team and a fast-moving engineering org, building the foundation that both depend on.

## What You'll Do

- Architect and own the data warehouse. Design and optimize our BigQuery environment for performance, cost, and reliability as data volumes scale with user growth.
- Build and maintain transformation layers. Own our dbt project end-to-end, including models, testing, documentation, and CI/CD, turning raw event streams into clean, trusted datasets.
- Pipeline orchestration. Build and manage robust data pipelines with proper orchestration, monitoring, alerting, and failure recovery. Nothing should break silently.
- Real-time data systems. Design and implement streaming infrastructure for use cases where batch processing falls short: live game economics, real-time risk signals, and in session player behavior.
- Reverse ETL and production integration. Close the loop between model outputs and the product by getting scores, segments, and predictions back into production systems where they drive real decisions.
- Data quality and reliability. Build the testing, validation, and monitoring frameworks that let a small team trust the data at scale.
- Partner with DS and engineering. You'll sit between two teams that move fast and need different things from the data layer. Translate between them and make both more productive.

## Qualifications

- Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Deep experience with SQL and Python in production data contexts.
- Hands-on experience with data warehousing (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar) and transformation frameworks (dbt strongly preferred).
- Experience building and operating data pipelines with orchestration tooling (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar).
- Understanding of data modeling patterns (dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, incremental materialization).
- Ability to work independently and make sound architectural decisions. You'll have a lot of autonomy and you need to use it well.

## Preferred

- Experience with streaming/real-time data systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink, or similar).
- Familiarity with analytics engineering and the modern data stack (Fivetran, Statsig, or similar tools).
- Exposure to quantitative or financial data environments where correctness and latency matter.
- Experience being an early or first data engineering hire. You've built from zero before and know what to prioritize.

## Why This Role

You'd be building and owning the entire data engineering function at a hypergrowth consumer startup where data runs through every layer of the business. Every product decision, every dollar of revenue, and every player interaction flows through the stack you'll build. You'll set the architecture, choose the tooling, define the standards, and see your work become load-bearing infrastructure from day one. If you want to build something from scratch at a company that lives and breathes data, this is a rare opportunity

Why Triumph?

- High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our web direction.
- High agency. Small, high-impact engineering team that is growing rapidly with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.
- High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity (16x year over year growth).
- Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph’s headquarters at Levi’s Plaza in San Francisco.

## About Triumph

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Triumph builds a real-money platform that layers financial stakes onto in-house built video games and collectibles, creating a new category of consumer entertainment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jake Brooks (CEO), Jared Geller (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer entertainment / Real-money gaming / Fintech for collectibles
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers who play competitive games and collect digital/physical collectibles
- **Mission/purpose**: “Financialization of everything” – building the next $100B entertainment platform where real stakes meet novel consumer experiences.

## Products & Services
- **Arcade by Triumph**: A mobile app that layers real stakes onto in-house built video games. Players can wager cash on the outcomes of skill-based tournaments. Features anti-cheating, fair matchmaking, and seamless tournament infrastructure. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)
- **Rips by Triumph**: A financial layer for the universe of collectibles, enabling users to trade, speculate, and monetize collectible assets. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)

Both apps are reported to be #1 in their respective App Store categories.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (post-money valuation not publicly available)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$46.1M** (as of Series B in August 2025). Latest round: **$24M Series B** (August 2025). Prior Series A: **$12.1M** (May 2023). [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DraftKings, Flux Capital, 90 Sheridan Street, and 20+ other investors. First-ever investor: Michael Fertik. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **162.5% YoY** to 47 employees (2026). Both apps #1 in their categories. Active job postings increased 500% year-over-year. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)

## Competitive Advantages
- **In-house game development** combined with financial rails – rare integration of skill-based gaming and real-money wagering.
- **Anti-cheat and fair matchmaking** systems that create a trusted environment for real-money play.
- **Elite team** composed of ex-quant traders, ex-founders, world champion video game players, and top artists/entertainers – a mix not easily replicated.
- **Network effects** from two complementary products (gaming and collectibles) that share a user base and financial infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform** to become a $100B entertainment company by expanding user acquisition, launching new games and collectible markets, and deepening the financial layer.
- **Hire aggressively** across engineering, data, product, operations, and marketing to support rapid growth (16+ open roles as of mid-2026).
- **Maintain in-office culture** (5 days/week in San Francisco) to accelerate collaboration and speed of execution.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Generalists who care about craft, ship fast, and own outcomes end-to-end.” The team includes ex-quant traders, founders, world champion gamers, and top artists – a high-caliber, interdisciplinary environment.
- **Work policy**: **5 days a week in San Francisco** (HQ at 90 Sheridan Street, SF, CA). Remote roles exist only for Customer Support and some Operations shifts.
- **Compensation**: Engineering salaries range **$200K–$400K** with equity. Roles like Engineering Manager ($275K–$400K), Quant Strategist ($200K–$400K), and Data Scientist ($200K–$400K) are listed. [triumpharcade.com/jobs](https://www.triumpharcade.com/jobs)
- **Impact**: “Your work will touch millions of users immediately” – the platform already handles billions of user interactions and billions in volume.
- **Notable perks**: Equity offered for most roles; fast-paced startup with clear growth trajectory; opportunity to work at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and culture.

## Sources
1. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)
2. [triumpharcade.com/jobs](https://www.triumpharcade.com/jobs)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade)
4. [linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)

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