Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Data Engineer – Data Platform

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $96,000 - $192,000 per year

About the role

  • Build scalable and reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, load and curate data from internal systems
  • Augment data platform with data pipelines from external systems.
  • Ensure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable
  • Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible
  • Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
  • Build data connections to company's internal IT systems
  • Develop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store
  • Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, DWH Engineer, Software Engineer, etc)
  • Experience with data-lake and data-warehousing technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Presto, Athena, Glue, etc)
  • Proficiency in at least one of the main programming languages used: Python and Scala. Additional programming languages expertise is a big plus!
  • Experience building data pipelines/ETL in Airflow, and familiarity with software design principles.
  • Excellent SQL and data manipulation skills using common frameworks like Spark/PySpark, or similar.
  • Expertise in Apache Spark, or similar Big Data technologies, with a proven record of processing high volumes and velocity of datasets.
  • Experience with business requirements gathering for data sourcing.
  • Bonus - Kafka and other streaming technologies like Apache Flink.
Benefits
  • Bonus program
  • Equity program
  • Wellness allowance
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata warehousingdata modelingPythonScalaETLSQLApache SparkAirflowdata manipulation
Soft Skills
data quality assuranceauditingdesigndeploymentcontinuous improvementbusiness requirements gathering