24 hours ago
Base Salary
$205k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate blockchain ingestion, indexing, storage, API-serving, and streaming systems.
- Handle reorganizations, retries, duplicate events, historical backfills, failure recovery, and data correctness concerns.
- Improve query performance, data freshness, observability, API capabilities, chain coverage, and event-delivery guarantees.
- Reduce storage, processing, and serving costs through measured architecture and query-execution improvements.
- Participate in production support and incident response, maintaining monitoring, runbooks, safe rollouts, and preventive fixes.
- Partner with Product and customer-facing teams to translate developer needs into scoped projects and measure their impact.
- Ship a customer-facing improvement and take ownership of a production component within the first three months.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience independently designing, shipping, and operating production backend or distributed data systems.
- Strong programming skills in a production backend language and experience with databases, indexing, and query performance.
- Understanding of consistency, partitioning, asynchronous processing, and failure recovery.
- Ability to diagnose production problems and improve systems beyond the immediate fix.
- Sound API design judgment covering compatibility, pagination, error handling, and data contracts.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped engineering projects.
- Blockchain experience is helpful but not required.
- Helpful experience includes ClickHouse or other analytical databases, Kafka or similar streaming systems, blockchain indexers, EVM logs and traces, finality, non-EVM data models, developer-facing data APIs, real-time delivery, large historical datasets, storage migrations, and production performance or cost optimization.
Benefits
- Private health insurance.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Commuter benefits.
- Flexible time off.
- In-office group meals.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Company-sponsored conferences and events.
- Books and audiobook subscription through Bookster.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaClickHouse
Categories
BackendData Engineering