Data Engineer, Kraken
Cryptocurrency exchange
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about designing and building scalable data systems that power one of the fastest-growing companies in cryptocurrency? We’re seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help us architect the future of Kraken’s data ecosystem
- 5+ years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, DWH Engineer, Software Engineer, etc)
- Experience with data-lake and data-warehousing technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Presto, Athena, Glue, etc)
- Proficiency in at least one of the main programming languages used: Python and Scala. Additional programming languages expertise is a big plus!
- Experience building data pipelines/ETL in Airflow, and familiarity with software design principles
- Excellent SQL and data manipulation skills using common frameworks like Spark/PySpark, or similar
- Expertise in Apache Spark, or similar Big Data technologies, with a proven record of processing high volumes and velocity of datasets
- Experience with business requirements gathering for data sourcing
- Bonus - Kafka and other streaming technologies like Apache Flink
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer at Kraken, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining high-performance data pipelines, ensuring the reliability and scalability of our data infrastructure, and enabling teams across the company to access clean, consistent, and timely data
- You’ll work with modern technologies and large-scale datasets, playing a key role in making data accessible for analytics, machine learning, and product innovation
- Build scalable and reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, load and curate data from internal systems
- Augment data platform with data pipelines from external systems
- Ensure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable
- Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible
- Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
- Build data connections to company's internal IT systems
- Develop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store
- Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering
Our take
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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