Software Engineer - Blockchain Data

Summary

Join Dune, a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform, as a Software Engineer focused on Data Platform. You will play a key role in ensuring the platform scales to handle massive volumes of public blockchain data. This involves designing and developing large-scale distributed systems and databases. You will design and develop distributed systems, engage in technical challenges related to distributed systems and large databases, and assume ownership of platform components. The ideal candidate possesses strong generalist skills, understands distributed systems, blockchain technology, and data lakes. Excellent collaboration and communication skills are essential. Dune offers a competitive salary and equity, generous PTO, a fully remote-first approach, comprehensive health benefits, paid parental leave, and various other perks.

Requirements

• You are a strong generalist with fundamental computer science knowledge. You use this knowledge to easily adapt to new technologies and scenarios, and to find the right solutions for the problems at hand
• You have an understanding of distributed system design, or the drive to learn if you’re a more junior engineer. Our work is as much about understanding and designing systems as it is about coding in a particular language
• Have an understanding of blockchain technology and RPC interactions
• Have experience with datalakes and formats like parquet, delta, iceberg
• You have great collaboration and communication skills. We work on the principle that the best output emerges from effective team work and respectful/constructive discussions
• Coding experience in any JVM language, along with a zeal for writing well-designed, testable software

Responsibilities

• Design and develop distributed systems in a principled way and take part in high impact architectural decisions
• Engage in stimulating technical challenges in topics such as distributed systems, very large databases, SQL processing, data modelling, or systems performance
• Assume ownership of components within our blockchain data platform such as data ingestion and decoding
• Write code mostly in Kotlin with some Java and Rust with a strong emphasis on good design and performance
• Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local test setups, integration tests, and incremental deployment processes
• Work on one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry
• Building AI agents for automation into the team

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 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