Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Data Governance Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $83,400 - $166,800 per year

About the role

  • Support metadata and catalog initiatives, including column-level tagging, dataset documentation, and ownership attribution
  • Contribute to data lineage and governance practices, helping improve audit readiness and visibility across pipelines and products
  • Support and maintain Airflow DAGs, including simple pipeline changes, operational fixes, and automation tasks
  • Assist with CI/CD workflows related to data pipelines, deployments, and platform tooling
  • Help improve data pipeline reliability and consistency, partnering with senior engineers on enhancements and fixes
  • Contribute to automation of reports and dashboards, enabling self-serve analytics for internal teams
  • Support adoption of data governance standards across teams, including documentation, processes, and tooling
  • Assist internal stakeholders with ad-hoc data questions, process improvements, and platform-related enhancements

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in data governance, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related technical role
  • Hands-on exposure to data governance concepts, including:
  • Metadata management
  • Data lineage (dataset- and column-level)
  • Data catalogs (e.g. DataHub or similar tooling)
  • Audit and compliance requirements
  • Experience supporting or contributing to governance initiatives, such as documentation standards, ownership models, or data quality practices
  • Hands-on experience with data governance tools like Datahub or similar at a major multi-source high volume data system
  • Strong Python fundamentals, used for automation, metadata ingestion, or governance-related tooling
  • Solid SQL skills for data discovery, validation, and audit support
  • Basic understanding of how data pipelines work end to end, sufficient to reason about lineage, dependencies, and data quality
  • Familiarity with Airflow or workflow orchestration in a support or operational capacity
  • A curious, problem-solving mindset and willingness to grow in a fast-moving data platform environment
Benefits
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • Wellness allowance
  • Other benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data governancedata engineeringanalytics engineeringmetadata managementdata lineagedata catalogsPythonSQLdata pipelineworkflow orchestration
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcuriositywillingness to grow