Data Science Careers at Messari

The Role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data infrastructure at Messari. You will have a critical role in building a performant and scalable data warehouse from the ground floor. You will be working closely with a high caliber team of backend engineers, data engineers, and data scientists to ingest, transform, and analyze huge amount of web3/crypto data from both on-chain and off-chain sources.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, and own data models and data pipelines that power Messari’s research and products.
• Work with product, engineering, and research teams to understand their needs for analytical data.
• Build a robust data quality framework to ensure high quality of data.
• Provide technical mentorship to more junior team members.

Who you are:

• Strong data engineering background with 5+ years of professional working experience in a Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics Engineering, or ML Engineering role.
• Extensive knowledge in SQL and relational databases, with experience in query optimization.
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks.
• Experience writing production data pipelines using task orchestrators like Dagster or Airflow.
• Strong experience data modeling with DBT, and ensuring that these models are integrated into downstream products.
• Desire to work in a small, cross-functional team and up-skill other Data Scientists.

Nice to haves:

• Passion for cryptocurrencies and a basic understanding of blockchains and/or decentralized finance (DeFi).
• Experience putting advance Data Science/ML concepts into production (statistical modeling, A/B testing, recommender systems, feed ranking, user analysis, financial analysis etc).

Salary Ranges for this position (depending upon experience):

• Mid: $150,000 - $185,000
• Senior: $185,000 - $200,000+