Senior Data Engineer, Solidus Labs
Infra
Crypto-native compliance & risk monitoring
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Crypto-native compliance & risk monitoring
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable safer crypto trading throughout the investment journey across all centralized and DeFi markets.
Role
Who you are
- BSc. in Computer Sciences
- Strong background as a software engineer with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java, Rust, or Python
- 8+ years in data engineering and data pipeline development on high-volume, low-latency production environments
- Experience working in low-latency, real-time systems processing billions of events a day
- Deep, hands-on ClickHouse expertise - including cluster architecture, table engine selection, replication, sharding, and query optimization. Experience engaging with the ClickHouse vendor team or community is a strong plus
- Proficiency across the broader data engineering stack: Apache Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Redis, Snowflake, and caching technologies
- Expert-level SQL and query optimization skills, with a strong emphasis on ClickHouse-specific patterns - materialized views, projections, TTLs, and merge tree tuning
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar), with the ability to define and own operational health metrics for a ClickHouse deployment
- Curiosity, ability to work independently, and a track record of proactively identifying and driving solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to coach and influence engineers across teams in a remote environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strong Software Engineer with experience in Data Engineering. Someone who is proficient in building robust, scalable, maintainable, and thoroughly monitored data pipelines on cloud environments
- As an ambitious start-up in an extremely dynamic space, we pride ourselves on being independent, accountable, and organized, with a self-starter attitude and a willingness to get our hands dirty with day-to-day work that might fall outside our official scope, while keeping an eye on our goals and the big picture
- Design and optimize the ClickHouse data layer - including table engines, partition strategies, materialized views, and storage policies - to ensure high performance at billions-of-events scale
- Own ClickHouse clusters sizing, topology decisions, and capacity planning across both real-time ingestion and T+1 batch workloads, balancing cost, latency, and throughput
- Drive data reliability and deduplication strategies within ClickHouse, leveraging engine-level features (ReplacingMergeTree, CollapsingMergeTree, etc.) and pipeline-level controls to guarantee data completeness and consistency
- Establish and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for the ClickHouse layer — covering replication health, merge performance, query latency, and resource utilization
- Serve as the internal ClickHouse authority, coaching engineering teams across the organization on query optimization, data modeling best practices, and efficient use of ClickHouse-specific constructs
- Act as the primary liaison with the ClickHouse vendor team - triaging issues, incorporating product feedback, evaluating new features, and translating vendor guidance into actionable improvements for our deployment
- Collaborate with downstream consumers (analytics, ML, product) to understand access patterns and continuously refine how data is stored and served — improving query performance, schema design, and data formats for diverse client needs
- Define and enforce schema versioning and governance standards within the ClickHouse environment, ensuring schema evolution does not compromise pipeline reliability or consumer compatibility
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As cryptocurrency and other digital assets edge closer to the mainstream, investors still harbor concerns about their integrity and security. Solidus is one of a number of companies trying to alleviate these fears through surveillance and risk monitoring software to detect manipulation, fraud, and security threats on cryptocurrency trading platforms.
The fact that Solidus convened the Crypto Market Integrity Coalition, which has been joined by over 30 companies including the likes of Coinbase, Robinhood, and Deltect, also highlights the position of respect that it has carved out. After recently securing major funding, the company is now focusing on accelerating the deployment of its capabilities and expanding R&D.
While crypto exchanges are currently under increased scrutiny, this is a sign of their increasing appeal to investors and mainstream businesses, and security and compliance solutions such as those provided by Solidus are likely to see growing demand as a result.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2022
$45m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$15m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $86m
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Asaf Meir
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Research Development Team Lead with the Israeli Defense Force, and former Program Manager at Microsoft. They then spent three years working at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Solidus Labs.
Praveen K. Dosodia
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Solidus Labs. Before joining Goldman Sachs, they worked as an Analyst and Senior Engineer at Morgan Stanley.
Chen Arad
(Co-Founder & CXO)Founding Advisory Council Member and Chair, Market Integrity Working Group of Global Digital Finance. Former Media Lecture at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, and Hebrew College, Boston, MA.
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