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Staff Data Engineer
New York · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
About the job
Build and scale real-time data infrastructure, including high-throughput pipelines, analytics systems, and storage solutions for a crypto social network.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and deploy high-performance data solutions across streaming, modeling, analytics databases, and real-time processing.
- Operate reliable batch and real-time pipelines, addressing data quality, consistency, performance, and scale.
- Own initiatives from design through production and maintenance, and mentor engineers through technical leadership and code reviews.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Fluency in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience in large-scale data ecosystems such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, ClickHouse, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
- Experience designing and operating high-volume batch and real-time pipelines with attention to quality, observability, and performance.
- Experience modeling complex datasets and driving technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain data; event tracking; or consumer tech or fintech products.
- Data visualization (especially Omni/Looker), statistical methods and causal inference, Dagster or DBT, or machine learning.
Tools
SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, ClickHouse, BigQuery
AI focus
The role may enable machine learning teams through data platforms; machine learning experience is preferred.
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