Senior Data Engineer - Finance

Circle; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own data pipelines and models used by product, treasury, finance and compliance teams. You will turn on-chain and internal data into trusted datasets and shape data reliability and governance across the business.

You will collaborate with analytics, data science and cross-functional partners to ensure data is well-documented, accurate and aligned with business needs. A strong ownership mindset and mentoring are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years building and operating production data pipelines and models.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python with a modern data stack.
• Experience owning a data domain end to end and collaborating with partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead data pipelines and models for product, treasury, finance, accounting and compliance teams.
• Ensure data reliability, traceability and explainability across datasets.
• Build data quality checks, reconciliation, and alerting frameworks.
• Ingest and model on-chain and internal data across multiple blockchains.
• Collaborate with analytics, data science and cross-functional teams to ship trustworthy data products.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with broader teams.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field

Tools

Cloud data warehouse

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com.

What you’ll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle has made its reputation on being compliant and transparent. That reputation rests on data that is right.
As a Senior Data Engineer at Circle, you'll own the pipelines and data models that our product, treasury, finance, accounting and compliance teams depend on to meet their reporting and regulatory requirements and to run the business day to day. You'll work with large-scale on-chain and internal data and turn it into datasets that people can trust, explain and defend. You'll also have the chance to shape how we think about data reliability, so that the most important information we track is well organized, well monitored, and understandable to the people who rely on it. The right candidate will join a team of passionate engineers who care about data reliability, and your work will support our mission to be a world-class company driven by data. If you have a lot of attention to detail, get bothered when the numbers don't tie together, are excited to learn from our expert finance, accounting and treasury partners, and want to help people understand how our systems really work, we would love to talk to you.

What you'll work on:

• Partner with product engineering, finance, accounting, treasury, data analytics, and compliance teams to understand how new products and regulations will affect the data we need, and work with them to design the data requirements, models, business logic and pipelines that let us track and verify that we are meeting our obligations.
• Develop a strong understanding of how the business thinks about its money and its customers' balances, including custody, reserves and reconciliation, and partner with those teams to make the inner workings of our data transparent.
• Build the frameworks and systems that help us see when something might be going wrong, such as reconciliation, data quality checks, and alerting. Lead the charge to fix the immediate problem, then design solutions that keep it from happening again.
• Work with on-chain data at scale, ingesting and modeling data from multiple blockchains and handling the realities of that data, such as reorgs, late or missing records and upstream schema changes.
• Work with analytics and data science colleagues, and with the teams that consume your data, to make sure what you ship is documented, trustworthy and fits how it will be used. Reframe requests into better data products and push back early when a request isn't well scoped.
• Build scalable automated solutions using SQL, Python, orchestration and transformation tooling, and AI.
• Review code, models and designs, and mentor junior engineers.
• Occasionally share your work with larger audiences to educate them on the inner workings of our data and financial systems.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals.
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards. You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance or similar), or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and models.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, and experience with a modern data stack: a cloud data warehouse, an orchestrator such as Airflow, and a transformation tool such as dbt.
• Experience owning a data domain end to end and being the person partners come to when something breaks or needs to change.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain clearly to non-technical audiences how the systems you own and design work.
• Strong collaboration skills that allow you to make sure that product engineering, data, finance, accounting, treasury and compliance are all on the same page about requirements and expectations.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability: when a number looks wrong or a pipeline breaks, you take the lead in triaging it, investigating the root cause and driving it to resolution, and you keep cross-functional partners informed until it is fixed.
• Experience with blockchain data, financial services, banking or other regulated industries is a plus, but not required.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $152,500-$205,000

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to [e-mail] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.

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