Senior Data Engineer

Join Ethena Labs as a Senior Data Engineer to build a market data platform for trading and business intelligence.

Work remotely with a team revolutionizing decentralized finance.

Ethena Labs is actively building and deploying a suite of groundbreaking digital dollar products aiming to upgrade money into the internet era.

Our flagship product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, and takes the novel approach of using a delta-neutral hedged basis strategy to maintain its peg.

This product scaled from zero to $15b in 18 months.

Expanding on this, iUSDe is designed specifically for traditional financial institutions, incorporating necessary compliance features to enable them to access the crypto-native rewards our protocol generates, in an institutional-friendly manner.

Ethena has also developed USDtb: a fiat backed GENIUS compliant stablecoin in partnership with BlackRock which has scaled to ~$2b.

These products are also offered in a whitelabel stablecoin offering where any application, chain, wallet or exchange can launch their own stablecoin on Ethena’s back-end infrastructure.

Through these offerings, Ethena Labs is not just creating new financial products; we are building the foundational infrastructure for a more open, efficient, and interconnected global financial system.

## What you'll do

• •Rapidly spin up the cloud environment.
• •Deliver working historical backfill pipelines from Tardis.dev into a queryable database.
• •Deliver a real-time Tardis WebSocket pipeline, ensuring data is normalized, cached for live consumption, accurate, replayable, and queryable by Day 60.
• •Ensure all pipelines are idempotent, retryable, and use exactly-once semantics.
• •Implement full CI/CD, Terraform, automated testing, and secrets management.
• •Implement proper observability (structured logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting) from day one.
• •Provide immediate self-service access to the MVP database for Trading and BI teams via tools like Tableau/Metabase, and through simple internal REST APIs.
• •Develop specialized timeseries data, including USDe backing-asset and a full opportunity-surface timeseries for Delta-neutral/lending/borrow opportunities.
• •Ingest data from additional sources (Kaiko, CoinAPI, on-chain via TheGraph/Dune).
• •Plan for 10x+ data growth via schema evolution, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• •Establish enterprise-grade governance, including a data quality framework, RBAC, audit logs, and a semantic layer.
• •Create full architecture documentation, runbooks, and a data dictionary.
• •Onboard and mentor future junior staff.

## Conditions

• •Work alongside a passionate and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity.
• •Enjoy a flexible, remote-friendly work environment with established opportunities for personal growth and learning.

• •Proven track record of delivering working, production data in weeks, not months, with the ability to ruthlessly cut scope to hit a 60-day MVP while managing technical debt.
• •Have built Tardis historical and real-time pipelines before (or equivalent high-quality crypto market data feeds), understanding specific quirks, rate limits, and WebSocket structures.
• •Expert in large-scale, reliable ETL/ELT for financial or market data.
• •Fluent in provisioning full environments with Terraform in days and expert in AWS/GCP serverless technologies.
• •Expert Python and SQL skills and proficiency with time-series databases like TimescaleDB or ClickHouse, ensuring fast queries from day one.
• •Advanced knowledge of WebSocket clients, message queues, and low-latency streaming, GitOps, automated testing/deploy and observability practices.
• •Significant understanding of stablecoins, lending protocols, and opportunity surface concepts, or a proven ability to ramp up extremely quickly.