Kraken
Data Engineer - Data Platform
Kraken
$110k - $176k
Remote, United States, Brazil, Chile, Mexico
Python
Scala
Presto

Data Engineer - Data Platform

Overview

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.

Job Description

Kraken is a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by the desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Responsibilities

  • - Build scalable and reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, load and curate data from internal systems
  • - Augment data platform with data pipelines from external systems
  • - Ensure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable
  • - Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible
  • - Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
  • - Build data connections to company's internal IT systems
  • - Develop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store
  • - Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering

Required Skills

  • - 5+ years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, DWH Engineer, Software Engineer, etc)
  • - Experience with data-lake and data-warehousing technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Presto, Athena, Glue, etc)
  • - Proficiency in at least one of the main programming languages used: Python and Scala. Additional programming languages expertise is a big plus!
  • - Experience building data pipelines/ETL in Airflow, and familiarity with software design principles
  • - Excellent SQL and data manipulation skills using common frameworks like Spark/PySpark, or similar
  • - Expertise in Apache Spark, or similar Big Data technologies, with a proven record of processing high volumes and velocity of datasets
  • - Experience with business requirements gathering for data sourcing
  • - Bonus - Kafka and other streaming technologies like Apache Flink

Benefits

  • - Bonus program
  • - Equity program
  • - Wellness allowance
  • - Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) [US Only]

About the company

Buy, sell, trade and learn about crypto on Kraken — the simple, powerful crypto platform that grows with you.


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