Senior Data Engineer, Bitgo
CA$180-220k
+ Equity + Bonus
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Be an early applicant
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$180-220k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years of combined Software Engineering AND Data Engineering work experience
- Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS/Python
- Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles
- Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Presto, Druid, etc)
- Strong experience with systems design and event driven systems (Kafka)
- A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
- Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
- Experience with data governance, handling PII, data masking
What the job involves
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, and curate data from internal systems
- Integrate select external data sources to enrich the data platform
- Develop applications that support customer-facing products and internal systems
- Enhance and expand BitGo’s blockchain reporting infrastructure and automated reconciliation systems
- Ensure high data quality and auditability across all pipelines
- Optimize data systems for near real-time processing and insights
- Develop and customize self-service tools, empowering data consumers to efficiently extract and analyze data from BitGo’s large-scale data platform
- Research, evaluate, and prototype new technologies to drive continuous improvement in data engineering
Our take
The digital asset industry is maturing, with asset companies looking to shore up their positions by adding secure custody capabilities. This is good news for BitGo, an independent, regulated cryptocurrency custodian company providing security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
BitGo’s flagship multi-signature wallet solution helps its clients mitigate risk and optimise capital efficiency. The company has subsequently expanded to also cover a number of areas that are critical for any holder of major crypto assets, like portfolio and tax management. In this, BitGo was smart to focus exclusively on institutional clients: there’s a huge appetite among larger players to expedite the mainstreaming of crypto, and they’ll need precisely BitGo’s tools to get there.
BitGo was in talks to be acquired by PayPal, and most recently, by Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. Despite a rocky 2024 for the digital assets (which now sees BitGo suing Galaxy Digital for pulling out of the acquisition deal), BitGo has manoeuvred itself into a central position to capitalise on what, now, seems a near-inevitable period of mass adoption.
Exemplifying this, the BitGo Ventures wing of the company was launched in 2024 to partner with and invest in cutting-edge blockchain and fintech startups, whilst the company saw revenue rocket to $4.19 billion in H1 2025. It completed an IPO bid in Q1 26, which is fitting considering its growth
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Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170.5m
Company benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
- Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
- Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
- Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
- Top-end computer equipment to power your work
- Flexible vacation time
- Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
Company HQ
Downtown, Sioux Falls, SD
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Director of Engineering at Good Technology, who went on to found Cookout Software - and then move to Google as a Software Engineer/Development Manager when the latter company bought out the startup. Has served as BitGo CEO for over a decade.
Ben Davenport
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has spent time as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and worked on algorithm development at Hudson River Trading. Additionally co-founded and led Beluga, a mobile group messaging solution that was ultimately bought by Facebook, and became Facebook Messenger.
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