Join the company, a mission-focused company committed to accelerating the global adoption of crypto and blockchain technology. As part of our world-class team, you'll lead the Data Platform team, responsible for building the real-time infrastructure that underpins one of the largest digital asset exchanges. This role involves designing systems that move, transform, and serve data in real-time, while driving the adoption of AI-powered automation and workflows across the data stack.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and grow a team of senior data platform engineers.
- Own the architecture and roadmap for high-volume, low-frequency data systems.
- Design and operate scalable data architecture that serves various teams including trading, risk, compliance, and analytics.
- Drive AI automation and intelligent workflows to enhance data quality and operational efficiency.
- Partner with ML/AI, analytics, and product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their work.
- Evolve the company's data-lake and warehouse architecture to support both batch and streaming workloads.
- Set technical direction for the team, focusing on reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency.
- Hire, mentor, and cultivate top-tier platform engineers.
Requirements:
- 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems, including 3 years managing engineering teams.
- Experience building data-lakes in AWS (i.e., Spark, Athena, Iceberg, Parquet, Presto).
- Strong expertise in real-time data systems, including Kafka and CDC pipelines.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Experience designing or adopting AI/ML-powered automation in data workflows.
- Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java in a production data platform context.
- Understanding of cloud-native data infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Track record of managing high-performing remote engineering teams.
- Ability to translate long-term vision into executable quarterly roadmaps.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with RisingWave and/or Clickhouse.
- Background in cryptocurrency, trading systems, or high-throughput financial data.
- Experience building self-service data platform tooling.
Work Conditions:
- Fully remote position with team members located in 70+ countries.
Language Requirements:
- As a remote company operating in over 50 languages, proficiency in multiple languages is a plus, although specific language requirements are not stated.
