Chainlink Labs

Junior Data Engineer, Economics

Chainlink Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in the World

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Job Level

Junior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformOraclePythonSQL

About the role

  • You will serve two primary functions: (1) designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions, and (2) building and maintaining production economics applications.
  • You will work on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including:
  • - Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
  • - Building data pipelines, models, and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
  • - Designing and parameterizing economics systems
  • - Optimizing parameters for production applications
  • - Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications
  • You will optimize network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level.
  • You will meticulously operationalize processes, and coordinate cross-functionally to implement them.
  • This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network.

Requirements

  • A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
  • Strong foundation in Computer Science principles, including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
  • Experience with data infrastructure design and implementation in cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Experience with production-grade software engineering concepts (e.g. git, testing, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)
  • Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory
  • Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Strong organizational and coordination skills necessary to productionize and operationalize processes and applications
  • Strong Computer Science or related Engineering, Economics and/or Finance background through Masters-level academics and/or multiple years of industry experience
  • A proven interest in DeFi and in remaining current with new products and trends
  • Experience with LLM-based development tools, onchain data, and orchestration tools such as Airflow and DBT
  • Experience in data modeling, data warehousing concepts
  • Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics, etc.)
Benefits
  • All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
  • We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.
  • Commitment to Equal Opportunity
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata infrastructure designSQLPythondata analysisdata modelingdata warehousingsoftware engineeringalgorithmscomplexity analysis
Soft Skills
attention to detailorganizational skillscoordination skillscommunication skillscollaboration skills