BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. In 2020, BitGo launched Prime Trading and Lending, as well as BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes over 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 400 coins and tokens. BitGo’s customer base includes the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges and institutional investors and spans more than 50 countries. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

About the role: 

As a Data Engineer (Intern), you will play an important role in building out scalable solutions that allow BitGo to make data-driven decisions quickly and accurately on several terabytes of data. Joining the team will give interns a unique look into building data infrastructures and solutions to solve business problems while gaining exposure into the cryptocurrency industry.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Having a dedicated mentor who will help you navigate through BitGo as a whole. From onboarding you on to our tech stack to teaching you about the crypto domain, your mentor will get you ramped up and ready to make an impact- all while showing you what it means to be at BitGo!
• Building scalable and reliable data pipelines that collects, transforms, loads and curates data from internal and external systems
• Augmenting data platforms with data pipelines from external & internal systems 
• Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
• Partnering with various cross-functional teams to solve critical problems across the BitGo organization and product

About You:

• Must be currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program with an expected graduation date in 2023
• Exposure to building data pipelines and database management systems
• Passion and interest for Crypto and Blockchain

Bonus Points: 

• Prior data engineering experience from internships, hackathons, or other side projects
• Experience with SQL, Javascript, or Python 
• Familiarity with ETL tools like DBT, Airflow  and  CI/CD flow

Technologies We Use:

• TypeScript/NodeJS and Go are the main languages and frameworks of choice
• Snowflake for Datalake/Data warehouse
• PostgreSQL/MongoDB as our primary data store
• Kafka for event streaming
• Redis as our caching layer
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kubernetes

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.