Galaxy

VP, Data Engineer

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14 days ago
India (city not specified)Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain tooling and infrastructure that enables autonomous data-pipeline delivery.
  • Own monitoring, alerting, and data operations practices for a reliable platform.
  • Operate Kafka for cross-team event-driven architecture.
  • Deploy and maintain services and open-source Helm charts using Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Run high-throughput, low-latency processing on Databricks/Spark and cloud-native services on AWS.
  • Support dbt transformations and Airflow or similar orchestration across the platform.
  • Partner with product, analytics, and infrastructure teams on platform design and delivery.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and drive corrective fixes.
  • Adopt AI tools and automation to improve team performance, decision-making, and output quality.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • At least five years of experience building data or platform engineering systems in production.
  • Strong coding skills in Python or Java.
  • Experience operating production data platforms on AWS and supporting downstream teams.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Experience running Kafka or a similar message broker in event-driven systems.
  • Working knowledge of Databricks/Spark, dbt, and Airflow.
  • Understanding of data modeling, data quality, and relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres and SQL Server.
  • Familiarity with testing frameworks and observability tooling.
  • Bonus: dashboarding, Flink or kdb, full commercial-system lifecycle development, and crypto experience.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus.
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions.
  • Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry.
  • Employee Resource Groups.
  • Benefits may vary depending on location.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatabricksdbtHelmJavaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPythonTerraform

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
Galaxy

About Galaxy

1,001-5,000 employees

Galaxy provides an institutional digital-assets platform spanning trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, and it builds and operates AI/HPC data-center infrastructure. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates the Helios campus in Texas and is developing a multi-gigawatt U.S. capacity pipeline. It monetizes through fees, market activities, and infrastructure services for financial institutions and enterprises across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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