Coindesk Jobs in Stamford, United States

Title

Data Engineer, Blockchain

Description

TradeBlock is a wholly owned subsidiary of CoinDesk, servicing financial firms with crypto currency trading technology, institutional-grade market data, as well as blockchain data and analytics. We are a technology company focused on building the future of finance by developing robust data infrastructure for blockchain networks and crypto markets.

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 blockchain data 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