Software Engineer

Data teams are becoming the new product teams

(https://tomtunguz.com/data-product-teams/)

The fundamental and most exciting difference between Allium and yet another data infrastructure company is that this is the first time (in recent history) that the data can be coupled with a state of the art infrastructure and sold 1000s of times. Because the blockchain is both a ledger of activity, and also a Turing machine. We sell both refined data schemas AND best in class querying infrastructure, combined, to power both applications and dashboards. This means that Allium's data infrastructure has to serve 1000s of customers versus a traditional data team's need to serve 1-2 stakeholders.

The rise of Data as a First Class citizen in companies can be seen with the surge of many new giant data governance (Monte Carlo) and delivery (Fivetran, Rudderstack) companies that have sprouted up in the past few years serving enterprises data needs. This means we operate at a scale of complexity that no off the shelf data tool can fit nicely today. We at Allium have to take the bleeding edge tools, understanding their approaches and from first principles build (or buy) solutions to match our needs.

About the Role

This is not your run of the mill "build an ETL pipeline to get data from X to Y" engineering role. This is "build an infrastructure framework" where Allium's (potentially less technical) customer can self serve, transform, and receive the data seamlessly, while ensuring data quality is 100% consistent. As such, on top of standard data warehouse, batch computing, realtime data streaming and ETL frameworks, we expect engineers at Allium to come in to reinvent and define improved ways to do this as most of the current existing tools are not there yet.

These are the open data problems the tech industry (and not just crypto) has to solve:

• Building a birds eye view of data quality - How does one ensure that we know the health and quality (completeness, consistency, freshness) of every single data schema delivered to every customer?

• Git for data - How does one propagate and manage scheme changes seamlessly to 100 customers using different aspects of the data?

• Reducing the cost of curiosity - How does one make the data schemas discoverable, but more importantly fun to play with?

• Observability - How do we know how our schemas are being used and help improve them?

• Activating the data - How can we build workflows to activate the data within for our customers in as seamless way as possible?

We believe because of the unique nature of Allium's business, we have the maximum incentive and chance to move faster in most advanced data governance and delivery platforms out there, and we will love for people to join us to be part of defining how the future of data engineering is done.

Why join us

• Define the Standard for the industry - If you want to be part of a team that defines the enterprise data standard of the industry, this is your chance to create Reliability and Quality benchmark standards (or debt) that will echo for decades. We work with leading companies - powering Phantom Wallet's data backend, Grayscale's Research team, Magic Eden's data science team, and many more.

• Care about data problems - Allium at its heart, is helping other companies with data plumbing. The entire tech industry (not just crypto) is evolving - Data Teams are now first-class citizens (https://tomtunguz.com/data-product-teams/). This is part of your change of setting best practices for data modeling and engineering beyond crypto. Most of our internal data processes we have built extends to every other industry, we are at the forefront of this.

• Be part of the rapid change - Allium has to continually reinvent its internal and engineering processes to keep up to date with what is happening with the industry and business. You will get to learn how to ship while still upgrading existing workflows in parallel.

• Contribute to all parts of the business - Learn all cross-sections of the business, outside of your domain - whatever it takes for the team to get a win, you will be part of it.

• Giant infrastructure budget per head - You will make mistakes, costly mistakes, but at Allium's expense. We have an internal leaderboard of the costliest infrastructure mistakes made, and we learn from them. Mistakes that very few engineers in the world even have the opportunity to make. We don't have fancy Michelin-starred meal budgets, but we have a huge infrastructure budget for you to get better at your craft. And that's what counts to improve.

• Front-row seat to building a fast-accelerating startup - if you ever wanted to start your company one day, learn how to do it by being part of one; it is my (Ethan here, cofounder) commitment to mentoring you about running startups if you have any questions. I have spent most of my life devouring nearly every tech gospel book, twitter influencer thread, GPT remix of tech tenets and stories. I am more than overjoyed to share this experience in an applied setting at Allium itself every single day.

Could Allium be the wrong fit for you? Allium isn't for you if you...

• Only work smart, not hard - Working smart is not enough. Everyone here works hard despite their previous success and takes nothing for granted.

• Want to cruise - At Allium, we believe talent alone does not lead to greatness. Talent with consistently applied effort is the way to superior outcomes. Even if an individual can get the job done with less effort, there is always something to improve, something more to do. There are plenty of companies out there that will let you cruise, Allium is not one of them.

About you

• You are a builder - You get joy in shipping and creating things. When people use what you've built and give you feedback, be it good or bad, you take it in and iterate.

• You are a doer - You get shit done. Quickly. And you want to work with a team of doers. No excuses, no grandstanding, no massive publicity. We take pride in getting things across the finishing line.

• You are an owner - You take pride in your work and take extreme ownership of any task, project, or area you take on.

• You are crypto curious - You don't have to be a zealot, but you see where this industry is heading and how every event of this the public nature of this movement is recorded on the chain.

Administrative Benefits

• Unlimited vacation policy - we need you at your best at all times. When you are off, be fully off and rest. When you are on, let’s get stuff done.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents

Note: The sun never sets on Allium. We hire from any geographical location as long as they match New York or Singapore hours (with 2 hours overlap on ET mornings Mon-Thurs).