Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) as a Data Engineer and contribute to the growth of the Stellar blockchain network. You will design, build, and maintain data pipelines for the publicly available analytics dataset, Hubble, analyzing the Stellar Network's real-world impact on the global financial system. This role involves conducting data analysis, improving data observability, translating business priorities into data products, and enhancing data accessibility. You will work on a variety of projects, including monitoring Soroban (smart contracts) adoption, tracking liquidity and transactional volume, and building analytics products for smart contract developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional data engineering, ML, or software engineering experience
• Solid understanding of modern data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience in an ETL framework like dbt, Fivetran, Databricks, or Talend
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets using SQL to validate data and provide insights
• Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
• Skilled programming in languages such as Python or Golang
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Enthusiasm about working on a small, growing team with the freedom to innovate and set direction

Responsibilities

• Design, build, orchestrate, and maintain data pipelines that give us a unique perspective into the liquidity, adoption, and usage of the Stellar network
• Conduct ad hoc data analysis to clean, transform, and distill key insights about the Stellar Network
• Improve observability and maintainability of our data marts, including usage, quality, and freshness
• Translate business priorities and community requests into data products that aid in data-driven decision-making
• Improve data accessibility by encouraging self-service adoption of Dashboards, KPIs, and SQL Interfaces

Preferred Qualifications

• You have cloud development experience, with a preference towards the GCP data stack
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience administering BI tools and building compelling visualizations
• You have data Governance best practices: data cataloging, quality control, and usability
• You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
• Life & ADD (up to $50K)
• Short & Long term disability
• 401K with 4% match
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
• Family building benefits through Kindbody
• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
• L&D budget of $1,500/year
• Daily lunch and snacks in office
• Company retreats