Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time On-Chain Data Platform

Dune; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary equity plan

PTO 5 weeks

Remote-first

Private medical insurance

Dental/vision

Parental leave

Quarterly offsites

Annual learning & development

Home office allowance

Travel allowance

Co-working allowance

Company swag

Job summary

Dune is building market data solutions for institutional customers, turning onchain activity into real-time feeds and reference data. You will contribute to the new market data platform, designing scalable systems across chains, protocols, and product capabilities while balancing correctness, latency, reliability, and cost.

This hands-on Staff Engineer role involves turning ambiguous requirements into designs, implementing complex parts, and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Built and operated distributed backend or data services with high reliability and performance requirements.
• Experience with realtime streaming systems, concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data.
• Operate streaming solutions, handle event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery including blockchain reorganizations.
• Build reliable client feeds and APIs with clear delivery contracts, schema evolution, and access controls.
• Partner with teams on reference data models and historical data capture.
• Define and improve service objectives and data quality measures.
• Instrument latency, freshness, completeness, and correctness; turn incidents into lasting improvements.
• Own services through deployment and production support, including on-call rotation.

Skills

Distributed backend

Realtime streaming

Rust

Go

CS fundamentals

Backend engineering

Job description

Dune is building market data solutions for institutional customers, turning onchain activity into real-time feeds and reference data. You will contribute to the new market data platform, designing scalable systems across chains, protocols, and product capabilities while balancing correctness, latency, reliability, and cost.

This hands-on Staff Engineer role involves turning ambiguous requirements into designs, implementing complex parts, and mentoring engineers.