
Data Governance Engineer
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data governancedata engineeringanalytics engineeringmetadata managementdata lineagedata catalogsPythonSQLdata pipelineworkflow orchestration
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcuriositywillingness to grow