Data Science Digest - 15th January 2025

Supercell's team reveals how they scale ScyllaDB to hundreds of millions of players, Chip Huyen's informative writeup on AI Agents, and jobs at Groundtruth AI, Synechron, StreetScan and more.

January 15, 2025

Data Science news around the web

How Supercell Handles Real-Time Persisted Events with ScyllaDB

How a team of just two engineers tackled real-time persisted events for hundreds of millions of players With just two engineers, Supercell took on the daunting task of growing their basic account system into a social platform connecting hundreds of millions of gamers. Account management, friend requests, cross-game promotions, chat, player presence tracking, and team formation – all of this had to work across their five major games. And they wanted it all to be covered by a single solution that was simple enough for a single engineer to maintain, yet powerful enough to handle massive demand in real-time. Supercell’s […]

www.scylladb.com/2025/01/14/how-supercell-handles-real-time-persisted-events-with-scylladb

Agents

Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines the field of AI research as “the study and design of rational agents.”

huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/agents.html

Data science jobs

AIM Consulting Group - Director of Data & AI
Seattle, WA, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

LinkedIn - Principal Staff Software Engineer, AI Training Platform
Mountain View, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Synechron - Sr. AI/ML Developer_FL
Sunrise, FL, United States
< Python, Crypto, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

Steampunk, Inc. - Salesforce Technical Lead
McLean, VA, United States
< Cpp, Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, AI >

Prosecution Genie, Inc. - AI software developer
San Diego, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI, UX, UI >

LinkedIn - Principal Staff Software Engineer, AI Training Platform
Mountain View, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

DevAI - Founding Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area, None, United States
< Python, AI >

LinkedIn - Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Mountain View, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, Cloud, ML, AI >

Infosys - Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Richardson, TX, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, AI >

kadence - Head of Machine Learning
San Francisco Bay Area, None, United States
< ML, AI >

DeepRec.ai - Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Mountain View, CA, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Hippocratic AI - Research Scientist, Speech Technologies
Palo Alto, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, AI >

ExcelSoft - ML Ops Engineer Role (Hybrid - San Antonio, TX)
San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States
< Python, Cloud, AWS, ML >

Bosch USA - Technical Director, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
< AI >

Harnham - Senior AI Engineer- Security
Boston, MA, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

LaSalle Network - AI Engineer
Rosemont, IL, United States
< Python, Geospatial, AI >

Prosecution Genie, Inc. - AI software developer
San Diego, CA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI, UX, UI >

ExcelSoft - ML Ops Engineer Role (Hybrid - San Antonio, TX)
San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States
< Python, Cloud, AWS, ML >

Synechron - Sr. AI/ML Developer_FL
Sunrise, FL, United States
< Python, Crypto, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

Central Transport - Data Scientist
Warren, MI, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Cubiq Recruitment - Senior Data Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, Robotics, ML, AI >

OFS - Senior Data Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS >

Alibaba Cloud - Solutions Architect (Mandarin speaking)
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
< Cloud >

Phaidon International - Lead Data Scientist
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
< Python, Azure >

Heart Mind Talent - Founding Backend Engineer: AI Cybersecurity
United Kingdom, None, United Kingdom
< Python, AWS, AI >

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions - Senior Data Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS >

Ascendion - Scala Developer
Bromley, England, United Kingdom
< AI >

Groundtruth AI - Senior Machine Learning Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, GCP, AI >

BlackLine - Senior Manager, Engineering
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
< Cpp, Cloud, Azure >

Bitstrapped - Machine Learning Engineer
Ontario, Canada, Canada
< Python, Cloud, GCP, AI >

First Derivative - Big Data Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
< Python, Cloud, AWS >

Future Electronics - Data Architect
Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada
< Python, Cloud, Azure >

Open Systems Technologies - Big Data Developer
Mississauga, ON, Canada
< Python >

GalaxE.Solutions - Sr. Data Engineer- Java
Toronto, ON, Canada
< Python >

SHOEBOX Ltd. - Senior Data Architect
Ottawa, ON, Canada
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS >

Luxoft - Senior Data Engineer
Toronto, ON, Canada
< Python, AWS >

StreetScan - Information Technology Specialist
Montreal, QC, Canada
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS, AI >

Synechron - Java Developer
Mississauga, ON, Canada
< Crypto, Cloud >

THRYVE - Head of Artificial Intelligence
Germany, None, Germany
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, AI >

Optimus Search - Java Developer - Spring, MySQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloud
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
< Cloud >

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™ - Data Scientist
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
< Cpp, Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™ - Senior Data Engineer
Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
< Cpp, Python, Cloud >

Capgemini - Architecte Big Data & Cloud (F/H)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France
< Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Sibylone - Data Engineer Spark / Scala
Paris, Île-de-France, France
< Python, Cloud >

ScaleSquad - Data Engineer Spark Scala Confirmé(e) (H/F)
Nanterre, Île-de-France, France
< Cloud >

Tata Consultancy Services - Big Data Engineer (H/F)
Puteaux, Île-de-France, France
< Python >

Meritis - Cloud Data Engineer
Île-de-France, France, France
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >