Staff Software Engineer - Data

About the role

The Data Foundation team owns the lifecycle of blockchain data within Dune, from ingestion to external delivery. This role involves designing large-scale distributed data systems, navigating complex technical trade-offs, and translating ambiguous product requirements into actionable engineering designs. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor team members, and build high-performance components across a stack including Go, Kotlin, Rust, and Python.

Responsibilities

• Turn product requirements into technical requirements by modeling domains and defining interfaces
• Break large problems into manageable tasks and sequence them for efficient delivery
• Drive high-impact architectural decisions across the data platform from design through production
• Design for correctness and performance in large-scale ingestion and distributed processing
• Raise the bar on design reviews, testing, and work breakdown processes
• Mentor engineers by example within a fully distributed team

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Data engineering
• Go
• Kotlin
• Rust
• Python
• System design

Nice to have

• Data lakes
• Parquet
• Iceberg
• Deltalog

Qualifications

• Strong computer science fundamentals

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity package
• 5 weeks PTO
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Quarterly offsites
• Yearly travel allowance
• Home office setup allowance

About the Company

Dune is a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform that makes crypto data accessible to developers, analysts, and investors. The company is backed by top investors and is dedicated to empowering a new generation of on-chain analysts.