Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Data Pipelines & Analytics

BlockchainHQ; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking a data-focused engineer to ensure reliability and observability of its data systems as the network scales across assets and use cases. You will build robust data pipelines and models to support benchmarking, monitoring, and downstream data access.

The role enables faster product development and unlocks quantitative workflows through high-quality, accessible data for teams across the organization. This is a remote-based role overlapping EST hours.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building scalable data models and pipelines for analytics using SQL and Python.
• Experience working with blockchain or traditional financial market data, with a clear understanding of one domain.
• Proven ability to define and implement metrics for evaluating complex systems, including data quality and system performance.
• Built and maintained data pipelines handling large-scale, time-series or asynchronous datasets.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, partitioning, and performance optimization in analytical systems.
• Experience designing and implementing data quality checks covering freshness, completeness, and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver data pipelines that achieve 99.99% ingestion uptime across critical datasets.
• Improve benchmark accuracy by building resilient, scalable data modeling and processing systems.
• Establish end-to-end observability, ensuring data freshness, completeness, and accuracy are continuously validated.
• Route actionable alerts to the appropriate owners, reducing noise and accelerating issue resolution.
• Enable rapid delivery of new data methodologies to support emerging products and asset coverage.
• Provide clean, well-structured datasets that accelerate modeling, analytics, and decision-making across teams.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Data quality checks

Time-series data

Streaming data

Metrics definition

Observability

Tools

Flink

Beam

Job description

Chainlink Labs is seeking a data-focused engineer to ensure reliability and observability of its data systems as the network scales across assets and use cases. You will build robust data pipelines and models to support benchmarking, monitoring, and downstream data access.

The role enables faster product development and unlocks quantitative workflows through high-quality, accessible data for teams across the organization. This is a remote-based role overlapping EST hours.