Foundry is hiring a

Senior Data Engineer, Crypto

DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Crypto Data Engineer is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and passionate individual to join the team at Foundry, a subsidiary of the blockchain industry’s most prolific and active investor, Digital Currency Group. Reporting to the CTO, the Senior Crypto Data Engineer aggregates, analyses, and interprets cryptocurrency transaction data in order to facilitate business operations, improve transparency, and provide insight into the crypto-ecosystem.

This is a rare invitation to join a small, highly professional entrepreneurial group, with the backing of the most established player in the fast-growing crypto space.

At Foundry, we are working toward a common goal of empowering a decentralized infrastructure. Our team is passionate about the future of finance and is looking for other like-minded individuals who share in this vision. While we are inclusive and diverse in workforce and >

This position is based at Foundry HQ in Rochester, NY.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architect robust and scalable data collection infrastructure across a variety of protocols
• Collect, research and analyze Operational and Blockchain data
• Proposes and implements enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of these data systems over time.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of data in transfer and load to enterprise repositories.
• Establishes and maintains security and integrity of controls.
• Participates in the formulation and monitoring of policies, procedures and standards relating to data warehouse management.
• Works with multi-functional project teams that perform: analyze and document business requirements, perform complex data analysis and mapping, and support end-user acceptance testing to support a variety of business intelligence, reporting, analytical and data visualization needs
• Organize data, and interpret trends and identify patterns
• Work closely with crypto product managers, business analysts and engineers
• Understand internal data practices in order to identify gaps and areas of inefficiencies
• Collaborate cross-functionally in order to coordinate and streamline data collection processes
• Write scripts that automate accounting / data processes
• Interface closely with Labs team members to understand Foundry’s staking business
• Lead scripting and scraping projects from Proof-of-Stake protocol web pages in order to prepare data sets for modeling
• Work with Business Team to identify key data points to capture and archive
• Refine data architecture to optimize for retrieval
• Improve resiliency and redundancy of data
• Refine tool to identify and document public data
• Work with Infrastructure Team to analyze infrastructure operational data
• Retrieve data and logs from various infrastructure systems including provisioning, orchestrating and monitoring systems
• Design and manage data lake and data marts for infrastructure data
• Develop data solutions and support infrastructure information gathering

ABOUT YOU:

Minimum Qualifications; Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 8+ years of experience in designing, building and implementing an ETL system and data mart/warehouse that can support data that is either high in volume, fast in speed or has significant schema variability
• Experience with managing integration of data stores, quality and overall implementation
• Experience with data modeling, statistics, and visualization techniques, and ability to drill into the data and gain valuable insights
• Advanced proficiency in analytical or business intelligence tools and MS Office suite including Excel
• Experience in programming languages for data analysis such as Python, Scala, JS, SQL
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and other fundamental concepts
• Knowledge of databases and Big data
• Interest in researching and analyzing topics related to DeFi and Blockchain
• Passionate about technology and interested in various crypto assets, blockchain, and tech entrepreneurship
• Willingness to understand the intricacies of a variety of crypto protocols

Preferred Qualifications; Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Technical Skills

• Experience in data analytics programming languages and OS, ex. Python, Scala, SQL, JS, or R, and Linux operating system
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Skilled in Data engineering skills such as extract, transform, and load
• Strong understanding of Pandas, Numpy, Kafka and Timestream
• Ability to enable performant API queries
• Knowledge of REST/HTTP, JSON/XML
• Knowledge of popular analytics tools such as QlikView, Tableau, Splunk, BusinessObjects
• Working Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform/AWS/Azure
• Proactive self-starter with a solutions-focused, positive attitude
• Team player, willing to pitch in wherever needed
• Organized, detail-oriented, and resourceful
• Reliable time management skills and method for tracking objectives and tasks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to independently manage short term projects from conception to execution and power through setbacks with focus and determination
• Comfort adapting to changing situations and priorities with a high sense of accountability and urgency
• Appreciation of input and candid feedback

Foundry focuses on Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in Rochester. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees.

You can view their website at https://foundrydigital.com

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