Senior Software Engineer (Streaming Data Pipeline)

Covalent; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading blockchain data infrastructure company is seeking a Senior Data Pipeline Engineer in Burnaby, BC. You'll design and manage a high-throughput ingestion pipeline for on-chain events, bringing your expertise in backend engineering and stream-processing technologies. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of relevant experience, with strong knowledge of Kafka and distributed systems. This role offers a salary range of CAD 125,000 to CAD 175,000 along with comprehensive health benefits and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Extended health and dental care

Life insurance

Performance incentives

Education support

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend/data-infra engineering, including experience with real-time streaming systems.
• Deep experience with distributed streaming and pub-sub platforms.
• Familiarity with blockchain data lifecycles and modern analytical databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and own a high-throughput ingestion pipeline for on-chain events.
• Build stateful streaming jobs and operate distributed messaging at scale.
• Transform raw node output into a canonical on-chain data model.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Stream-processing experience

Experience with Kafka

Experience with Apache Flink

Proficiency in SQL

API design skills

Observability and performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Red Panda

Containerized microservices

Job description

Covalent powers access to the richest multichain data infrastructure in Web3. We’re trusted by thousands of developers, enterprises, and institutions to bring structure and meaning to blockchain data across 100+ chains with GoldRush - our suite of developer products.

Our newest offering delivers real‑time blockchain event data to power next‑generation applications. It empowers developers to build products and interfaces that can scale with faster, sub-second blockchains. We’re building the infrastructure to make that possible.

About the Role

Covalent is looking to welcome a Senior Data Pipeline Engineer to support our streaming data pipeline, processing high‑volume event streams across many blockchains. You’ll bring your 5 + years of backend / stream-processing experience alongside proven experience with Red Panda, Kafka, and / or Apache Flink. Added bonus if you are bringing experience with data analytics, olap, or clickhouse.

What You Will Do

Design and own a high-throughput ingestion pipeline for on-chain events with strong delivery guarantees.

Build stateful streaming jobs and operate distributed messaging at scale (partitioning, replication, retention).

Transform raw node output into a canonical on-chain data model for APIs and analytics; integrate external data where needed.

Embed robust observability and automated recovery so systems self-heal under load.

Deploy containerized microservices via modern CI / CD and infrastructure automation in managed cloud environments.

Contribute through design / code reviews; rigorously test and ship secure, scalable software aligned with best practices.

What You Will Need

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field (or equivalent experience)

5+ years in backend / data-infra engineering, including multi-year experience running real-time streaming systems

Deep experience with distributed streaming and pub-sub platforms; strong grasp of watermarking, checkpointing, back-pressure, and event- vs processing-time.

Proficiency in a statically typed systems language plus strong SQL and API design skills; proven pipeline design and CDC / data-sink experience.

Strength in observability, SLOs, and performance tuning (latency, scalability, availability, efficiency, capacity); ability to optimize reliability and cost at scale.

Familiarity with blockchain data lifecycles, token standards, event ingestion / traces, common data schemas, market-data pipelines, and modern analytical databases.

What We Offer

The expected salary range for Canadian applicants for similar roles within Covalent is CAD 125,000 to CAD 175,000, as well as extended health and dental care, life insurance, performance incentives, and education support.

Next Steps

Applicants legally eligible to work in Canada are welcome to apply from any location; however, the role is based (hybrid) at our Burnaby, BC office. Limited relocation support may be available for the successful candidate.

Covalent is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We welcome and consider all applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, or any other protected status.