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Senior Data Engineer

extra holidays - fully flexible

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Freelance

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

4+ years in data engineering, Experience with OLAP and OLTP databases, Skilled in building data pipelines, Familiarity with AWS tools & Terraform, Less experienced candidates considered.

Key responsabilities:

Design and maintain data warehouse enhancements
Improve historical dataset queriability

Bitmex Fintech: Finance + Technology Scaleup https://www.bitmex.com/

201 - 500 Employees

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Job description

About BitMEX

BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”.

Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies.

In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances."

For more information on BitMEX, company initiatives and our products, please visit the BitMEX Blog or www.bitmex.com, and follow LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram and X.

Overview

The Data Engineering team is part of the broader DevOps department, and sits at the core of the business, bridging the fast-paced and never-ending data feeds from the BitMEX trading platform to the entirety of the firm. Whether it is about business development, financial products, risk management, compliance & market surveillance, marketing – consistent and reliable data is key, making Data Engineering the cornerstone to the firm’s success.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enhancements to our data warehouse, data lake, and data pipelines to increase their reliability and consistency
Improve queriability of large historical datasets through industry-standard tools, careful data representation and aggregation for both technical and business units

Qualifications

Minimum 4+ years experience in the data engineering field with demonstrated design and technical implementation of data warehouses
Experience with OLAP databases, how they differ from OLTP databases, and data structuring/modeling with understanding of key data points in a business sense for trade-offs between storage/performance and usability
Experience building, deploying, and troubleshooting reliable, idempotent and consistent data pipelines working with disparate in-house and external data-sources, e.g. using Airflow DAGs
Experience with AWS Redshift, Glue Data Catalog, S3, PostgreSQL, Parquet, Iceberg, Trino, and how they are managed using Terraform & Kubernetes
Candidates with less experience will be considered for the Data Engineer position

Why BitMEX?

BitMEX is a place of intense work, fun, and diversity, all at the same time. We hire across different time zones, to support the growing demands and to bring in the best of the best talents across the world.

We are looking for individuals who are determined, responsible and collaborative to join BitMEX as we continue to build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value attention to detail, speed and simplicity. As a global business operating a 24/7 exchange, we seek out those who are adaptable and can work across markets in a diversity team.

We provide flexible arrangements to our remote contract talents with:

Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
Paid holidays and leave so you won’t miss out any important events
Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer
Take advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom