Senior Data Engineer

Salary: $160K - $200K Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

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About Us

Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our content, newsletters, podcasts, and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.

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Who You Are

• Software engineering is your passion, with special talents focused on data architecture, design, and API development.
• You are a player-coach and a natural leader who understands the technical and human elements that go into great software design.
• You have a results-oriented attitude and a passion for delivering flawless releases and developing digital product pipelines (CI/CD pipelines).
• You have a proven track record facilitating engineering teams to increase productivity and quality.
• You're excited at the possibility of helping design and develop our data pipelines as well as leading all of our data-related projects and strategies for Blockwork's suite of projects.
• You love moving quickly in a fast-paced start-up, but you also bring intentionality, sustainability, and scalability to your approach as an engineer.

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What You’ll Do

As our Senior Data Engineer, you'll be our first data engineer and will be directly responsible for leading the creation and execution of our data models and strategies that feed our product. You'll work collaboratively with other members of the engineering team to design, develop, implement, and evolve our data pipeline and API strategies and approaches. Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will:

• Own Data Sourcing Pipelines: Be responsible for helping to architect our data warehousing, ingestion, and sourcing strategy, working with multiple SDKs to aggregate data from various sources into Blockwork's own data warehouse.
• Design and Implement ETL Solutions: Be responsible for implementing our overall ETL approach, including accessing & setting up blockchain nodes to pull from, sourcing data from 3rd parties, and modeling our internal schemas across our PostgreSQL database(s).
• Grow Shared Knowledge: Help provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the team in the implementation of established architectures and designs.
• Drive Operational Efficiency: Constantly look for opportunities to improve data workflows and reliably automate routine tasks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with other teams across Blockworks, including Research, Product, and Engineering, to lead initiatives and move collaborations forward.

Experimentation is frequent at Blockworks. Comfortability with being uncomfortable is a must.

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What You’ve Done Before

• Significant knowledge of the crypto industry; considered crypto-native.
• At least 4 (ideally more) years of hands-on experience with data modeling, schema design, data operations, and data warehousing.
• Personally built backend systems at scale with a focus on data processing and ingestion.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust and/or Typescript.
• Incredibly strong expertise in SQL (ideally Parquet, Postgres, and Clickhouse).
• Deep experience creating data warehouses at scale (100M+ rows per day).
• Experience using DevOps tools and cloud solutions like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.

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It’d Be Great If You’ve Done This

• Experience and demonstrated success in crypto, web3, startup, or incubator environments.
• Background in designing, building, and managing microservices.
• Significant experience in security, privacy, and scalability.

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Salary

This is a full-time, exempt position.