Blockchain Data Engineer

About

The start-up is a non-custodial, institutional grade, staking as a service provider. The business operates validators across a wide range of Proof-of-Stake protocols and allows institutional clients to delegate their assets using their preferred custodians in order to collect staking rewards. It charges a commission on the staking rewards for operating the validators and providing analytics and reporting.

The business’ differentiation is based on:

• Institutional grade security and compliance (e.g. permissioned validators)
• Superior transparency and analytics, including dashboard and reporting
• Processes designed with institutional workflow in mind

As a Blockchain Data Engineer, you will be responsible for extracting on-chain data from various PoS networks. You will be the reference within the company to provide reliable data necessary to perform multiple analyzes and to produce reporting and invoicing.

Responsibilities:

• Extract, Transform and load data from various blockchains
• Assist with data analysis queries
• Design database schema that is performant, scalable, and maintainable
• Interact with the product team to provide data and build the applications they are requesting
• Interact with field experts and answer internal/external questions related to data extraction on each protocol
• Build cloud infrastructure to support data engineering efforts.

You Have:

• Experience/strong interest in blockchain
• Comfort with one or more: Python/JavaScript/Golang
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, Restful APIs and hands-on experience with JSON-RPC endpoints
• Experience with writing infrastructure as code for cloud deployments and microservices (such as AWS Lambda) for task automation.
• Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, and describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategies
• Comfort with writing & optimizing SQL queries

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Airflow and data-pipelines
• Experience building reliable infrastructure on the Cloud (AWS, preferred, GCP, Azure) or willing to do so.
• Experience in fault-tolerant infrastructure & real-time system monitoring
• A genuine interest in the functioning of the networks you are working with
• General knowledge of how PoS consensus mechanisms work

Perks and benefits:

• Fully remote
• Opportunity to build systems with no historical technical debt and operate in a company with a flat hierarchy
• Flexible working hours
• Plus equity