About the company
Kraken, the trusted and secure digital asset exchange, is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Our 2,350+ Krakenites are a world-class team ranging from the crypto-curious to industry experts, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. As a fully remote company, we already have Krakenites in 70+ countries (speaking 50+ languages). We're one of the most diverse organizations on the planet and this remains key to our values. We continue to lead the industry with new product advancements like Kraken NFT, on- and off-chain staking and instant bitcoin transfers via the Lightning Network.
Job Summary
The opportunity
šWork and master knowledge of blockchain data! šInvestigate notable cryptocurrency transactions and addresses for insights and detecting issues. šBuild scalable and reliable data pipelines that collects, transforms, loads and curates data from internal systems. šEnsure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable šSupport design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization šDevelop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store šEvaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering
Skills you should HODL
šDeep hands-on experience with at least one major blockchain, potentially more (i.e. UTXO, EVM chains, etc..) š2+ years of work experience in relevant field (Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, DWH Engineer, Software Engineer, etc) šExcellent SQL and data manipulation skills using common frameworks like Spark/PySpark, Pandas, Polars, or similar. šExperience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices. šExperience building data pipelines/ETL (or ELT) and familiarity with design principles (Apache Airflow is a big plus)
