Sr Data Engineer
About Decentraland
Decentraland is a decentralized virtual world that serves as a hub for creativity, community, and technology to come together in an open metaverse. The platform offers a vast 3D space filled with user-generated content ranging from games and immersive art to social gathering spots and virtual events, all created and owned by the community.
The Challenge
The Decentraland Foundation is in search of a Senior Data Engineer to take charge of advancing the decentralized data infrastructure used to support the company's Blockchain and Gaming ecosystem. The role involves designing, constructing, and optimizing complex ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows on AWS infrastructure using tools like Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Meltano.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain intricate ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows.
- Ensure data services are highly available, scalable, and secure.
- Work collaboratively with various teams to translate business requirements into effective data models, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Automate processes for ingesting, transforming, and modeling blockchain, gaming telemetry, and user interaction data.
- Contribute to initiatives aimed at evolving the data platform architecture and enabling data democratization within Decentraland.
- Explore new strategies for capturing and leveraging decentralized data in line with blockchain and gaming sectors.
The Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data engineer focused on large-scale data infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Python for data pipeline development.
- Expertise with Snowflake, dbt, Apache Airflow, and managing data ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Deep understanding of AWS services for data processing and storage.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools like Meltano, Metabase, and Segment.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Prior experience working with blockchain data is desirable.
- Passion for working in decentralized architectures.
The Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with telemetry tools and implementing observability for data systems.
- Contributions to open source projects related to data engineering or blockchain.
Join the Decentraland team to be part of the data-driven future of blockchain gaming through cutting-edge data engineering.
What We Offer
- Fully remote and flexible working environment.
- Fast-moving and collaborative team culture.
- 29 annual paid time off days.
- Long-term incentive in MANA tokens.
- Additional tokens linked to annual performance.
- Stipend policy for remote work and wellness expenses.
- Brand-new remote work equipment.
- Parental leave.
- Reimbursement for English/Spanish lessons.
- Annual team offsite.
About Decentraland Foundation
The Decentraland Foundation oversees the Decentraland platform, focusing on its long-term growth, security, and sustainability. Responsibilities include core development contributions, maintaining platform infrastructure, and ensuring ecosystem health. The Foundation supports community safeguarding, smart contract security, codebase contributions, and proposing critical updates in coordination with the DAO. Actively fostering innovation and empowering creators, developers, and communities within Decentraland are core objectives of the Foundation as a neutral entity in service of the ecosystem.
