About the company
BitMEX is the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, which has pioneered cryptocurrency trading through relentless commitment to change, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation, liquidity, and security today. As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD a day. Join us, as we build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem through strategic investments in emerging cryptocurrency technology, and create the future of digital financial services.
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
đź“ŤAWS Platform Architecture: Design and build the foundational data infrastructure within AWS, utilizing core services (EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, etc.) to support high-throughput, fault-tolerant data product delivery. đź“ŤOpen-Source Deployment: Be the subject matter expert in selecting, deploying, scaling, and managing open-source data technologies (e.g., Airflow, Superset, DBT, etc.) directly on our AWS infrastructure. đź“ŤInfrastructure as Code Mastery: Own the entire platform lifecycle using Terraform for reproducible, version-controlled provisioning of all AWS resources, networking, and security policies. đź“ŤSemantic Layer Architecture: Architect and implement the infrastructure to support a unified semantic layer (e.g., using technologies like Trino/Presto, Cube.js, or related OLAP engines) to ensure consistent definitions, metrics, and low-latency access for complex analytics and AI agent consumption. đź“ŤDecentralization & Governance: Establish the architectural patterns and tooling (e.g., decentralized metastores, standardized APIs) to enable domain teams to expose their data as secure, self-service data products. đź“ŤSecurity & Cost Optimization: Implement robust security controls, access management (IAM), and continuous monitoring to ensure compliance and optimize the cost-efficiency of the custom-built AWS data platform.
Qualifications
đź“ŤCloud Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience and architectural proficiency in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including networking (VPC), IAM, S3, EC2, and security services. đź“ŤInfrastructure as Code: Expert-level proficiency with Terraform for managing complex, stateful data infrastructure environments on AWS. đź“ŤDistributed Systems: Strong practical experience in deploying, configuring, and scaling core open-source data technologies like Apache Spark (on EKS/EC2/EMR) and Trino/Presto (and/or Athena) or similar distributed query/federation engines. đź“ŤSemantic Modeling: Solid understanding of semantic modeling, OLAP, and dimensional modeling concepts and direct experience implementing a consistent metrics layer or data consumption interface. đź“ŤOrchestration & Containers: Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) for packaging, deploying, and managing self-hosted data services. đź“ŤProgramming: Strong skills in Python for building platform automation, internal tools, and APIs.
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