Data Engineer

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

SDF is looking for a curious, hands-on Data Engineer to join our team. In this role your focus will be all things data: designing, building, and implementing data pipelines for our public analytics dataset, Hubble.

You’ll work on a range of projects that assess the Stellar network’s real-world impact on the global financial system. This includes tracking Soroban (smart contract) adoption, monitoring liquidity and transaction volume, and building tools to support smart contract developers and ecosystem projects. Our aim is to make Stellar data more accessible, actionable, and useful  to the broader Stellar ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of data pipelines that support insights into the liquidity, adoption, and usage of the Stellar Network.

• Conduct ad hoc data analysis to clean, transform, and distill key insights about the Stellar Network.

• Support efforts to monitor and maintain our data marts, with a focus on usage, quality, and freshness.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to turn business priorities and community requests into actionable data products.

• Support data accessibility by contributing to self-service tools like dashboards, KPIs, and SQL Interfaces.

You have:

• 2-3 years of professional data engineering, software engineering or related technical roles

• Familiarity with modern data warehousing concepts and experience working with ETL tools like dbt, Fivetran, Databricks, or Talend 

• Some experience with SQL, and experience analyzing data to validate assumptions and surface insights

• Some experience with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or AWS Glue

• Working knowledge of a programming language such as Python or Golang

• Strong communication skills, and a willingness to learn how to communicate technical concepts to a broader audience

• Interest in working on a small, collaborative team where you’ll have room to grow and take initiative

• An eagerness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment, with mentorship and peer support

Bonus points:

• Experience working with cloud platforms (especially GCP) and modern data infrastructure

• Experience working in collaborative codebases and contributing to team-owned data infrastructure

• Exposure to BI tools and interest in making data accessible through simple visualizations

• Comfort with git and common engineering workflows (PRs, code review, testing)

• Interest in open-source data tools or participating in data/crypto communities

• A curiosity about blockchain technologies and a desire to understand decentralized systems

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $140,00 - $200,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits: 

USA Benefits/Perks:

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents

• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break

• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents

• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)

• Life & ADD (up to $50K)

• Short & Long term disability

• 401K with 4% match

• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts

• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution

• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution

• Family building benefits through Kindbody

• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)

• L&D budget of $1,500/year

• Daily lunch and snacks in office

• Company retreats

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About Stellar

Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a mission, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. Built with speed and low costs in mind, the Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets, and to send and convert currencies in real time creating real world utility. Founded in 2014, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) supports the continued development and growth of the Stellar network and also serves the ecosystem of NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs building on the Stellar network through tooling, funding and strategic collaborations. Together, Stellar is where blockchain meets the real world.

About the Stellar Development Foundation

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting change-makers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations. SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility. As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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