Data & AI Engineer

About the role

Vertigo Games, a developer of top-ranked iOS and Android games with 150+ million fans, is looking for a Data & AI Engineer to join its small, AI-first data team in Istanbul. The role is on-site, five days a week from the Levent office, and works closely with developers, product and marketing. The analytics platform handles most raw data ingestion, so the focus is on healthy game events, alerts and the AI tooling the team uses daily.

Key responsibilities

• Build and improve the team's AI tooling (reusable agent workflows, integrations, automated reports) and help everyone use AI well.
• Keep game events healthy: work with developers on new events, keep the event dictionary clean and automate checks that catch broken tracking early.
• Improve monitoring and alerts for game KPIs, cheat detection and backend health, and investigate critical errors with the development team.
• Take part in releases: review tracking code, check feature metrics and run data checklists.
• Support marketing with data and AI-assisted analysis of creative performance.
• Set up small services and automations in the cloud when needed.

Required profile

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, backend or data platform roles.
• Experience with event or tracking data, ideally from mobile games or apps.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting or debugging production systems.
• Analytical and critical thinking, clear communication and collaboration across teams.

Required skills

• Strong SQL, including optimizing queries on large event data.
• Solid Python.
• Daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Copilot).
• Some experience building with LLMs (agent workflows, automations).
• Working knowledge of a cloud platform, ideally Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Run).
• Familiarity with Git and code review.

Nice to have

• C# / .NET or Azure experience (the game backend runs on them).
• Anomaly detection or statistics.

What we offer

• Competitive pay, meal allowance and in-office catering.
• Private complementary health insurance.
• A monthly learning budget and real equity once a contribution level is reached.
• Bonus company-wide holidays from the first year and a free day on the birthday.
• Referral bonus and milestone awards.
• A modern office in Levent with a game room and regular team events.