What are we all about?
We are a team of builders and researchers on a mission to empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralized systems.
Our expertise covers several domains: Ethereum and Starknet protocol engineering, layer-2, AI, cryptography research, protocol research, decentralized finance (DeFi), security auditing, formal verification, real-time monitoring, smart contract development, and dapps and enterprise engineering.
Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with renowned companies, such as Ethereum Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Gnosis Chain, Flashbots, Forta Protocol, Lido, EigenLayer, Open Zeppelin, RISCZero, Aleph Zero, and many more.
Today, we are a 350+ strong team working remotely across 66+ countries.
View all our open positions here: https://www.nethermind.io/open-roles
About
Starknet is the fastest-growing network in terms of new developers joining the network. Nethermind builds many developer-facing tools that need to work seamlessly in this fast-paced blockchain. This ecosystem needs contributors with a quality mindset, capable of applying their craftsmanship and systematic creativity to improve its components. Your software engineering experience and ability to rally developers around you could mean the difference between a flawless network upgrade and a community forking event. Do you have what it takes?
As a Blockchain Data Engineer, you will be responsible for extracting on-chain data from various PoS networks. You will be the reference within the company to provide reliable data necessary to perform multiple analyzes and to produce reporting and invoicing.
Responsibilities:
- Run a scalable, efficient blockchain indexed data platform
- Extract, Transform and Load data from blockchain RPCs
- Assist with data analysis queries
- Design database schema that is performant, scalable, and maintainable
- Interact with the product teams to provide data and build the applications they are requesting
- Interact with field experts and answer internal/external questions related to data extraction
- Build cloud infrastructure to support data engineering efforts.
You Have:
- Experience/strong interest in blockchain
- Comfort with one or more: Python/JavaScript/Golang
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, Restful APIs and hands-on experience with JSON-RPC endpoints
- Experience with writing infrastructure as code for cloud deployments and microservices for task automation.
- Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, and describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategies
- Comfort with writing & optimizing SQL queries
Nice to have:
- Experience working with data-pipeline engines (Airflow, Dagster)
- Experience working with big data query engines (Apache Spark, Trino, Presto)
- Experience building reliable infrastructure on the Cloud (AWS, preferred, GCP, Azure) or willing to do so.
- Experience in fault-tolerant infrastructure & real-time system monitoring
- A genuine interest in the functioning of the networks you are working with
- General knowledge of how PoS consensus mechanisms work
- Experience with Terraform or infrastructure as a code
Perks and benefits:
- Fully remote
- Flexible working hours
- Plus equity
