Senior Data Engineer – Blockchain Analytics at Scale

Elliptic; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Home office budget $650

Learning & Development budget $1,000

Holidays 25 days + US holidays

Birthday leave

Enhanced parental leave

Healthcare coverage

401k match

Mental health support

Job summary

Elliptic seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and own data engineering solutions powering blockchain analytics. You’ll design and ship the data platform, shape its technical direction, and collaborate across product, engineering, and intelligence teams to deliver scalable, high-impact features.

You’ll mentor engineers, uphold engineering excellence, and continuously improve reliability, observability, and performance while embracing AI-enabled tooling and hybrid work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Ability to design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer.
• Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines.
• Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products.
• Explore and integrate new technologies to optimise performance and scalability.
• Take shared ownership of data systems from design to deployment and support.
• Perform thoughtful peer reviews to raise code quality and share best practices.
• Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic.

Skills

Scala & FP

Distributed data systems

Spark / Databricks

Cloud infrastructure

Data modelling & orchestration

Scalability & performance judgement

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Job description

Elliptic seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and own data engineering solutions powering blockchain analytics. You’ll design and ship the data platform, shape its technical direction, and collaborate across product, engineering, and intelligence teams to deliver scalable, high-impact features.

You’ll mentor engineers, uphold engineering excellence, and continuously improve reliability, observability, and performance while embracing AI-enabled tooling and hybrid work arrangements.