Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Dune, a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform, and become a key contributor to our mission of making crypto data accessible. We are a team of approximately 50 employees working across Europe and the eastern US time zones. We're building a powerful, open-source ETL for blockchain data (Spellbook) and custom pipelines for popular datasets. This role involves building and maintaining data pipelines, supporting analysts, and ensuring pipeline robustness. We offer a competitive salary and equity package, along with excellent benefits including generous PTO, remote work flexibility, comprehensive health insurance, paid parental leave, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Proven experience with building robust data pipelines and using orchestration tools, for example with DBT and Prefect
• Proficiency and hands-on experience with data warehouses, with expertise in at least one of Trino, Snowflake or Clickhouse
• Strong ability to independently analyze, debug, and fix data pipeline issues
• Deployment and infrastructure in public cloud platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals and system design
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote setting, contributing to a positive and inclusive team culture

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines that power some of the most popular data on Dune
• Support analysts to build new powerful datasets
• Assume ownership of data transformation pipelines that take community contributed SQL transformations as an input
• Orchestrate robust pipelines that are resilient to user error in a fast paced contribution pipeline
• Understand and prioritize the needs of our diverse community from amateur data sleuths to professional data scientists and engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience with database internals, data lakes, massive data storage and processing, and systems performance
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and SQL
• You know your way around crypto and/or smart contracts
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working across multiple time zones

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies in the space
• Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
• ���� 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you)
• ����‍💻 A fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
• Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings!
• Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard 🩺
• We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule
• Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹and Athens 🇬🇷)
• On top of this 👆each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days
• An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk
• Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet!
• And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag ! ✌️😎