Summary

The team

Join our Data Engineering Team at Kraken!

Are you passionate about leveraging the power of data to drive business decisions in the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency? We're seeking a talented Data Engineer to play a crucial role in our innovative Data Engineering team. As a Data Engineer at Kraken, you'll be at the forefront of transforming terabytes of data into actionable insights, enabling us to stay ahead in the ever-evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

If you are ready to be a driving force behind Kraken's data initiatives, working with cutting-edge technologies and a passionate team, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey at Kraken!

This role is fully remote. We consider candidates from Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

The opportunity

1. Build scalable and reliable data pipeline that collects, transforms, loads and curates data from internal systems
2. Augment data platform with data pipelines from select external systems
3. Ensure high data quality for pipelines you build and make them auditable
4. Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible
5. Support design and deployment of distributed data store that will be central source of truth across the organization
6. Build data connections to company's internal IT systems
7. Develop, customize, configure self service tools that help our data consumers to extract and analyze data from our massive internal data store
8. Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in data engineering.

Skills you should HODL

1. 4+ years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, DWH Engineer, Software Engineer, etc)
2. Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Presto, Athena, Glue, etc)
3. Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles (Apache Airflow is a big plus!)
4. Excellent SQL and data manipulation skills using common frameworks like Spark/PySpark, or similar.
5. Proficiency in a major programming language (e.g. Scala, Python, Golang,..) 
6. Experience with business requirements gathering for data sourcing

Skills

• Database Management
• Development
• Python
• Software Engineering
• SQL