Data Engineer, Nym
Privacy infrastructure to prevent data leakage
Open for applications
Privacy infrastructure to prevent data leakage
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable digital privacy for all humanity.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about privacy tech, blockchain, and data engineering, we’d love to hear from you!
- At least three years of professional experience as a Data Engineer
- Strong understanding of data privacy principles and frameworks, including K-anonymity
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as SQLite and PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Redis, and tools like Grafana, Pocketbase, ClickHouse (a bonus) or similar tools
- Experience with Rust or a willingness to learn is advantageous
- Understanding of blockchain technology, working with on-chain data
- Excellent communication skills to present data insights visually and verbally
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and a privacy-first mindset
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field is preferred
What the job involves
- With the upcoming launch of our flagship product, NymVPN, we are seeking a skilled and privacy-oriented Data Engineer to join our dynamic team
- In this role, you’ll bridge the gap between development and research, innovate methods to securely store and process privacy-sensitive data, and contribute to Nym's mission of advancing privacy-preserving technologies, not limited to NymVPN
- Act as a bridge between development and research teams to support data-driven decisions
- Design and implement robust and secure data pipelines, storage solutions and ETL processes to collect process, and store data from various sources
- Ensure data privacy and security compliance in all data processes
- Ensure the integrity, scalability, and accessibility of data for internal and external stakeholders
- Implement and enforce data quality standards and governance practices to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across all workflows
- Develop and maintain data access points to enable seamless integration and data usage by internal and external developers, adhering to best practices for security and privacy
- Build and maintain dashboards for presenting insights to multiple stakeholders
- In Your First Month, You Might:
- Assess and refine existing data storage solutions to ensure compliance with privacy standards
- Develop and implement secure, reliable, and scalable methods for managing and storing data while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations
- Collaborate closely with developers and researchers to align on data requirements
- Build and maintain data collection systems to gather, clean and analyse data from the Nym network (e.g., network data, on-chain data)
- Explore and evaluate existing open-source frameworks and tools (e.g., for data storage, visualization, monitoring and integration) to identify the best fit for Nym’s data workflows
- Present initial findings and gather feedback to enhance data processes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Privacy was not a priority when the internet's core infrastructure was originally built. Now, however, internet privacy has been a matter of growing importance and there is much opportunity for B2B and consumer-facing privacy tech.
Nym aims to end the era of surveillance capitalism by creating an open-source, decentralized, and permissionless privacy system. Unlike other options that enhance privacy on the network level like VPNs, Tor, and I2P, Nym uses its proprietary technology based on mixnet, private credentials, and incentives to obscure metadata tracking at a network level and thus guarantee against data leakage.
Nym’s platform has a potentially wide range of use cases — not all of them in crypto. It could, for example, be used by messaging app Signal to scramble packets connected to communication. The company is setting out to become the best technology for securing web browsing and in line with this vision, it will use its recent investment to issue grants to developers and incentivize them to build on top of Nym's decentralized infrastructure.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2024
$0.2m
GRANT
Nov 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $21.7m
Company benefits
- IT Infrastructure: We strive for excellence on a daily basis, your hardware shouldn't hold you back
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance: We are actively anti-burnout at Nym
- Market Leading Compensation: We want everyone to be able to afford to live the life they want outside of work
- Fully Remote/Flexi Working: Work when you want, how you want as long as key deadlines are hit
Company HQ
Neuchâtel, NE
Articles
Leadership
Harry Halpin
(CEO)Previously Project Co-ordinator at Inria, and Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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