Remote Senior Data Engineer - Crypto Market Data Platform

About the Role

We are looking for a Remote Senior Data Engineer to join Ethena Labs, a pioneering company in the crypto space. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and deploying a reliable market data platform that serves as the single source of truth for trading, risk, and business intelligence. This position is fully remote, allowing you to work from anywhere while contributing to our mission of revolutionizing decentralized finance.

What You'll Do

• Rapidly spin up the cloud environment to support our data needs.
• Deliver working historical backfill pipelines from Tardis.dev into a queryable database.
• Implement a real-time Tardis WebSocket pipeline, ensuring data is normalized, cached for live consumption, and accurate.
• Ensure all pipelines are idempotent, retryable, and use exactly-once semantics.
• Implement full CI/CD, Terraform, automated testing, and secrets management.
• Provide immediate self-service access to the MVP database for Trading and BI teams via tools like Tableau/Metabase.
• Develop specialized timeseries data for USDe backing-asset and opportunity-surface timeseries.
• Ingest data from additional sources such as Kaiko and CoinAPI.
• Plan for significant data growth via schema evolution and performance tuning.
• Create full architecture documentation, runbooks, and a data dictionary.
• Onboard and mentor future junior staff.

Requirements

• Proven track record of delivering working, production data in weeks, not months.
• Experience building Tardis historical and real-time pipelines or equivalent high-quality crypto market data feeds.
• Expert in large-scale, reliable ETL/ELT for financial or market data.
• Fluent in provisioning environments with Terraform and expert in AWS/GCP serverless technologies.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with proficiency in time-series databases like TimescaleDB or ClickHouse.
• Advanced knowledge of WebSocket clients, message queues, and low-latency streaming.
• Significant understanding of stablecoins and lending protocols.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GitOps and automated testing/deployment practices.
• Familiarity with observability practices.
• Ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies.

What We Offer

• A flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
• Opportunities for personal growth and learning.
• The chance to work alongside a passionate and innovative team.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Engagement in a mission-driven company focused on separating the dollar from the state.