Junior Data Engineer, Chainlink Labs

• If you’re a meticulous, creative, and motivated individual ready to solve complex economic problems through data-driven decisions in the rapidly evolving world of Web3, this is the role for you
• A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
• Strong foundation in Computer Science principles, including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
• Experience with data infrastructure design and implementation in cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience with production-grade software engineering concepts (e.g. git, testing, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)
• Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory
• Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
• Meticulous attention to detail
• You must be meticulous, creative, and hard-working
• You should be a curious, collaborative self-starter
• You’re ideally growth oriented, self-aware, and willing to be wrong

Desirable

• Chainlink Labs is pioneering the world’s first fully sustainable and decentralized oracle network, and the Economics team is searching for a Junior Data Engineer to play a critical role in building it
• This role will sit at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial innovation, and economic systems, and shape the future of decentralized economics
• As a Junior Data Engineer on the Economics team, you will combine data science, economics, and blockchain expertise to shape incentives, optimize network design, and influence the decision-making of our Economics and Executive Leadership teams
• You will design, analyze, and operationalize economic models for production applications
• You will collaborate across departments to bring innovative solutions from concept to production, ensuring technical and economic soundness and throughout
• This is a high-impact role, offering visibility and influence as you contribute to the development of the Chainlink network
• You will serve two primary functions: (1) designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions, and (2) building and maintaining production economics applications
• You will work on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including:
• Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
• Building data pipelines, models, and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
• Designing and parameterizing economics systems
• Optimizing parameters for production applications
• Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications
• You will optimize network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level
• You will meticulously operationalize processes, and coordinate cross-functionally to implement them
• This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network

• We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes