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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.

Software engineering is your passion, and you have 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.

Youre 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 Blockworks 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.

As our Senior Data Engineer , youll 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. Youll 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 do things like:

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

For this role, first and foremost, you must have significant knowledge of the crypto industry; interest in crypto is not enough, we re looking for someone who considers themself crypto native. You have at least 4 (but ideally more) years of hands-on experience with data modeling, schema design, data operations, and data warehousing. During that time, youve personally built backend systems at scale with a focus on data processing and ingestion.

You re an ace at Python, Go, Rust and/or Typescript, and you bring incredibly strong expertise in SQL (ideally Parquet, Postgres, and Clickhouse). You have deep experience creating data warehouses at scale (100M+ rows per day), and you also bring experience using DevOps tools and cloud solutions like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.

Experience and demonstrated success in crypto, web3, startup, or incubator environments will move you to the top of the list. Having a background in designing, building and managing microservices will also set you apart from other candidates. If you have any significant experience in security, privacy, and scalability, wed love to hear about that, too.

This is a full-time, exempt position with an expected salary of $160,000 - $200,000/year.

Remote-First: Were a remote-first organization with an office in NYC for you to utilize as you please.

100% Medical Coverage for You: Close to fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and a significant portion covered for your dependents.

Flexible PTO: We have a flexible paid time off policy that doesnt limit the number of vacation days you can take.

Parental Leave: At Blockworks, all team members are eligible for 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

Hardware Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to use to purchase the tools and technology that help them be their most productive.

Learning Growth Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to us to spend on their skill growth and professional development.

Career Growth: We prioritize skill growth and career development, and we have a clear, documented structure to take the guesswork work out of individual development and career progression

Global Diverse Team: Were a global team, and were committed to creating an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture

We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.

Blockworks is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.