Data Engineer

Mysten Labs believes that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value. This is why at Mysten Labs, we are creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

The Data team is looking to hire a Data Engineer to design and execute on the next iteration of our data systems. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to design web3 analytics systems that run at web2 scale, reliability, and efficiency. Interested candidates will have the opportunity to help define the new standards for blockchain analytics on top of the world’s premier object-centric blockchain.

This role requires a combination of high capacity hands-on individual contributor work. You will partner with the heads of Data and Engineering, as well as cross-functional partners, to effectively and smoothly process high-volume data in a reliable and efficient way. You will get to touch all parts of the business at Mysten Labs and become the expert on data structures on the Sui blockchain.

Outcomes:

• Universal data sources: develop and maintain foundational data models that serve as the single source of truth for analytics across the entire organization

• Actionable insights: empower data users by translating business requirements into user-friendly datasets, dashboards, and tools

• Scalable data products: drive the adoption of frameworks, tools, and workflows that maximize efficiency for data users while maintaining high standards of data quality and operational efficiency

• Impact-focused solutions: leverage of state-of-the-art analytics tools and platforms to deliver value quickly, while ensuring long term maintainability

Responsibilities:

• Build / maintain data pipelines with a reusable and modular framework. Examples:

  • Stand up ingestion of data from internal sources (e.g., Prod DBs, application logs, cloud buckets, etc) and external APIs or files (e.g., CSVs, webhooks)

  • Build out a new data model allowing team members to easily unlock business value through experimentation, ad hoc analysis, and automation

  • Enable sharing and syncing of internal data to external partners

• Enable data discoverability, usability, and governance. Examples:

  • Help make data self-serve and intuitive for data scientists, engineers, and product / GTM teams

  • Define approaches for data quality checks, validation pipelines, and alerting for broken or stale data

• Becoming a SUI data expert

  • Partner with internal / external teams on driving best practices for the indexing, storing, and transforming of SUI blockchain data for various use cases

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in data engineering

• Advanced SQL - proficiency in advanced SQL data transformation, querying, and optimization

• Intermediate Python - should be comfortable with scripting and automation, and building scalable frameworks

• Data pipeline development - experience using tools such as dbt, Dagster, Airflow, or similar

• Development tools - familiarity with version control (Github), CI/CID, and modern development workflows

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior blockchain data data experience

• Data architecture: knowledge of modern data lake / warehouse architectures and transformation frameworks

• Real-time data: experience in working with queues and streaming data frameworks

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information.

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To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Mysten Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3!