Blockchain Data Expert

It’s an exciting time to join Metrika! A Series A-funded startup in growth-mode with teammates across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe, we are building the world's premier operational intelligence platform for blockchain networks. Metrika partners with blockchain protocols, foundations, and node runners to help them and their community members analyze individual and network-wide metrics of blockchain networks to maintain and improve their performance, security, and reliability.

These are the early days of our platform, and as a Blockchain Data Expert you will be able to contribute, influence and take ownership in a number of initiatives. You will become a domain expert in a variety of blockchain networks/protocols, onboard new and maintain existing blockchain networks/protocols on the Metrika Platform, and work with Product and Engineering to refine and build new data features.

If you are a business savvy data enthusiast, with a solid background in programming, databases, data analysis, and would love to work with an international, distributed team, join us! No prior experience in blockchain is necessary, but an interest in learning and being deeply immersed is.

What this position is all about

What you’ll do:

1. Data ingestion, dashboards, reports and alerts:
1. Build robust data ingestion services
2. Create aggregate data sets and scripts to calculate synthetic derived metrics
3. Develop and QA dashboards for blockchain communities
4. Support integration of all the above into the Metrika Platform
2. Research new blockchain protocols to
1. Evaluate metrics/KPIs that are needed to improve operations on the network
2. Identify data sources to collect metrics
3. Client/Community Engagement
1. Lead external/client discussions
2. Engage with blockchain communities to collect feedback for the Metrika Platform and work with product to spec out new features
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration
1. Work with Product and Engineering teams to refine and implement new product features

Please note: Our Analytics team is predominantly based in Europe and the eastern United Statues. This position is currently open to those resident and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland, the UK as well as the eastern United States/Canada (UTC-4/UTC-5 timezone)

Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

Requirements:

Qualifications

You will need:

1. A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or related field. Masters or higher degrees preferred
2. Considerable programming experience (our team works predominantly with Python):
   1. Ingesting data from APIs and databases
   2. Data analysis and visualization (pandas, matplotlib etc)
   3. Unit and integration testing
   4. Git (commit strategy, branching, merging, resolving conflicts)
3. Considerable experience querying, analyzing and visualizing data:
   1. Experience writing complex queries for SQL or noSQL databases
   2. Experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Kibana, Grafana, Apache Superset)
   3. Experience synthesizing large amounts of data to identify trends and tell a story
4. Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams:
   1. Understanding of product development processes
   2. Familiarity working with Product and Engineering teams to support the refinement and implementation of product features
5. Communication skills:
   1. Communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously, and that of being a positive, constructive team member
      
   2. Experience leading external/client-facing engagements
6. Owning your work: 
   1. Ability to function autonomously to solve problems and deliver your work
      
   2. Ability to independently research new technologies and topics (e.g., blockchain protocols)

Bonus Qualifications:

1. Familiar with blockchain technology
2. Experience taking Python code into production
3. Experience with parallel/distributed/concurrent computing frameworks such as Ray, Spark and asyncio
4. Experience with document databases (e.g., ElasticSearch)
5. Experience with basic statistical analysis, time series analysis and anomaly detection
6. Experience in building, maintaining, improving dashboards that successfully convey business-critical KPIs

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• All-remote, but we meet physically 4 times per year:
  • Company wide offsite twice per year
  • Team meetup twice per year
• Budget to purchase home office equipment
• Supported attendance at blockchain conferences
• Budget to meet other Metrikaers in your locality, if applicable
• Generous employee referral bonus

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