Data Engineer

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients.  Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 1,000 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms.  BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

BitGo is looking for a Data Engineer who will join our Data Engineering Team and help us build and scale BitGo’s data platform, reporting infrastructure and data driven products. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team as we expand our data engineering efforts. BitGo’s Data Engineering team will be working closely with other talented engineers, analysts, data scientists, product managers, and security experts. 

This is a hybrid role, working from the office on Wednesdays and the option to work remotely the rest of the week.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable and reliable data pipeline that collects, transforms, loads and curates data from internal systems
• Build and extend support for BitGo’s blockchain reporting infrastructure and automated reconciliation systems
• Augment data platform with data pipelines from select external systems
• Ensure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable
• Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible
• Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
• Build data connections to company’s internal IT systems
• Develop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store
• Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: delivering trust in digital assets. 

Required

• 1-2 years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer, etc)
• Proficiency in a major programming language (e.g. Java, C++, etc) and/or a scripting language (Javascript, Python, etc)
• Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Strong experience with systems design and event driven systems

Preferred

• Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Presto, Druid, etc)
• Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles
• Understanding and experience working in the financial industry
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications

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.