Data Engineer, Blockchain

We are looking for candidates excited to shape this future by contributing to the crypto and blockchain industries through an industry-leading firm. This full-time role offers a competitive base salary, comprehensive medical/dental/vision benefits, flexible time-off and a rewarding work environment rooted in The CoinDesk way.

Our backend blockchain engineers build and maintain the technology underpinning our blockchain data infrastructure. They are responsible for core software development, data ingestion, transformation and distribution, as well as measuring and improving the performance of our systems. The ideal candidate will have experience working with several blockchain protocols, including their APIs and node management. Deep Linux and SQL experience is important, as well as experience working with complex data-processing pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Integrate our systems with blockchain tokens and data.
• Manage nodes for multiple blockchain protocols.
• Extract raw data from different blockchains for normalization, transformation and distribution.
• Build backend services that interact with the Ethereum blockchain.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance systems.
• Database and schema optimization.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of blockchains and their data structures.
• Experience installing, maintaining and working with blockchain nodes.
• Well versed in Python and PostgreSQL.
• Deep knowledge of Linux.
• Experience with Redis.
• Strong networking knowledge (firewalls, load balancers, TCP/IP protocols, traffic shaping).

Preferred

• Experience with C.
• Experience working with smart contracts.
• Knowledge of decentralized finance (DeFi).
• 5+ years experience with Linux.
• 3+ years experience with Redis.
• 2+ years experience with blockchains and/or smart contracts.

Technologies

AWS, PostgreSQL, Linux, Redis, Python, Node.js, C/C++, HAProxy, Javascript, Graphite/Grafana, Ansible, Nginx, Python, Django, Git

About CoinDesk:

CoinDesk is the leading media platform covering the emergence of a new financial system and serving the next generation of global investing. Founded in 2013, CoinDesk is a rapidly growing company with incredible ambitions. Its journalism, research, events, and recently launched CoinDesk TV provide critical insights into emerging cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and related technologies, and the industries developing around them. Based in NYC, CoinDesk has over 85 full-time employees worldwide and is an independently run subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group, the largest investment & operating company in the blockchain technology industry. We'd love for you to join us if you're willing to take on new challenges and immerse yourself in a world of intelligent, innovative, forward-thinking and also, fun humans.