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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