Galaxy

VP, Data Engineer (KDB Developer)

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14 days ago
Mumbai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the stability and quality of real-time ingestion processes.
  • Build and support kdb Insights or KDB-X modules, packages, and pipelines processing billions of real-time messages daily.
  • Develop performant queries and functions supporting business activities across trading desks.
  • Build SRE tools for proactive detection of performance bottlenecks across q, Python, and Java processes running 24x7 in AWS.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of core kdb+/q development experience.
  • Practical experience developing, deploying, and supporting large-scale kdb+ platforms, preferably in AWS.
  • Hands-on experience with kdb Insights, including advanced use of microservices and development of packages, pipelines, and user-defined analytics.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes services in AWS.
  • Development experience using Python data-processing libraries and PyKX.
  • Preferred: experience building Datadog dashboards with kdb metrics.
  • Preferred: experience integrating kdb+ with enterprise lakehouses, specifically Databricks.
  • Preferred: experience using AI coding agents across development, testing, release, and SRE lifecycles.
  • Preferred: experience working with crypto products, markets, and data.

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 and collaborative, entrepreneurial colleagues.
  • Benefits may vary depending on location.

Tech Stack

AWSDatabricksDatadogJavaKubernetesPython

Categories

Data Engineering
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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