Data Infrastructure Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

Bastion enables financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, generate revenue on reserves, and expand their ecosystems. Bastion’s platform combines stablecoin issuance, secure custody, and seamless orchestration for cross-border transfers, on/off-ramps, and stablecoin conversions. With Bastion’s platform and APIs, businesses can create and scale their stablecoin network, while optimizing revenue, compliance, and control.

As a Data Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining critical data infrastructure. You will build ingestion, analysis, and reporting pipelines that are at the core of Bastion’s leading compliance and product offerings. You’ll also work with teams across the entire Bastion organization, including compliance, legal, and finance. Given the foundational nature of this role, you will also be responsible for selecting appropriate technologies, managing external vendor relationships, and fostering a data-driven culture across the entire company. You will be expected to architect and build both real-time and batch data pipelines that ingest data from a variety of sources, delivering them to our data warehouse. In addition, you will be responsible for establishing strong security and privacy controls around sensitive data.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering and data analytics experience, startup experience a plus.
• Strong proficiency and comfort using SQL and Python to perform complex data analysis.
• Recent experience building automation tooling and pipelines using a general purpose language such as Python, Golang, and/or Typescript.
• Experience with modern data pipeline and warehouse technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, AWS Glue)
• Strong proficient writing declarative data models and transformations using modern technologies (e.g. dbt)
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-based data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain modern and robust real-time and batch data analytics pipelines.
• Develop and maintain declarative data models and transformations.
• Implement data ingestion integrations for streaming and traditional sources such as Postgres, Kafka, and DynamoDB.
• Deploy and configure BI tooling for data analysis.
• Work closely with product, finance, legal, and compliance teams to build dashboards and reports to support business operations, regulatory obligations, and customer needs.
• Establish, communicate, and enforce data governance policies.
• Document and share best practices with regards to schema management, data integrity, availability, and security.
• Protect and limit access to sensitive data by implementing a secure permissioning model and establishing data masking and tokenization processes.
• Identify and communicate data platform needs, including additional tooling and staffing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to define requirements, plan projects, and execute on the plan.

Company Information

Bastion enables financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, generate revenue on reserves, and expand their ecosystems. Bastion’s platform combines stablecoin issuance, secure custody, and seamless orchestration for cross-border transfers, on/off-ramps, and stablecoin conversions. With Bastion’s platform and APIs, businesses can create and scale their stablecoin network, while optimizing revenue, compliance, and control.