Senior Data Engineer

BitGo; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Data Engineer and play a pivotal role in building and optimizing a robust data platform. This exciting opportunity involves collaborating with talented teams to develop scalable data pipelines, enhance blockchain reporting, and ensure high data quality. You'll be at the forefront of digital asset security and financial technology, contributing to innovative solutions that empower clients in navigating the digital asset landscape. If you're passionate about data and want to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving industry, this role is for you!

Benefits

Equity

Annual performance bonus

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related fields.
• Strong experience with SQL databases and server-side languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines for internal systems.
• Integrate external data sources to enrich the data platform.
• Develop applications that support customer-facing products.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.JS

Python

SQL

RESTful API design

Data pipeline/ETL

Data warehouse technologies

Systems design

Event driven systems

Microservices

Effective communication

Education

Engineering degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

GitHub

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

BitGo is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build, scale, and optimize our data platform, reporting infrastructure, and data-driven products.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record as both a software engineer—developing and scaling applications that support our product suite—and a data engineer—designing and implementing robust data infrastructure to move and transform data efficiently.

At BitGo, Data Engineering plays a critical role in enabling insights and innovation. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform that makes data accessible and actionable for other engineering and product teams, empowering them with the tools and frameworks needed to seamlessly integrate data into their products. You'll collaborate closely with talented engineers, analysts, data scientists, product managers, and security experts across multiple domains, gaining exposure to all facets of our business.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-impact team at the forefront of digital asset security and financial technology.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, and curate data from internal systems.
• Integrate select external data sources to enrich the data platform.
• Develop applications that support customer-facing products and internal systems.
• Enhance and expand BitGo’s blockchain reporting infrastructure and automated reconciliation systems.
• Ensure high data quality and auditability across all pipelines.
• Optimize data systems for near real-time processing and insights.
• Develop and customize self-service tools, empowering data consumers to efficiently extract and analyze data from BitGo’s large-scale data platform.
• Research, evaluate, and prototype new technologies to drive continuous improvement in data engineering.

Skills & Experience:

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: delivering trust in digital assets.

Required:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of work experience in relevant field (Data Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer, etc)
• Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS/Python
• Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles
• Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Presto, Druid, etc)
• Strong experience with systems design and event driven systems (Kafka)
• A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
• Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
• Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
• Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
• Experience with data governance, handling PII, data masking.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 - $240,000 CAD base salary. Equity and an annual performance bonus are also a part of this role's package.