ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Our product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow. To explore our products and solutions, visit here.
About the Direct User product groups
Vertical Applications, Codefi, MetaMask, MetaMask Institutional, and others work together as part of the Direct User business unit. Together, they create new products across all verticals (consumer, institution, enterprise, protocols and DAOs, and developers), with an eye towards improving user experience with services that are monetizable. We build, deploy and maintain critical applications across ConsenSys’s industry leading products, like MetaMask, MetaMask Institutional, Infura, and Quorum.
These products serve as gateways for over a million worldwide users to interact with new blockchain, “web3” and “DeFi” applications like Uniswap, Maker, Compound. We need innovative problem solvers who are interested in tackling the complex challenges that exist in the blockchain and financial ecosystems and scaling developer and user-facing systems to tens of millions of users.
Why join ConsenSys?
Remote first. You’ll be joining a team based all over the world. Providing the unique opportunity to work with people from many different countries and cultures. Want to work remotely? Go ahead. Or pop into one of our offices? We’ve got you covered in NYC, DC, Dublin, London, Paris, Brisbane and Hong Kong.
Flexible working arrangements. You can create your own journey with flexible schedules and locations. We believe everyone has the right to control their own freedom. Our people can make their own schedule, own their own time, and we encourage you to travel and work from anywhere in the world.
Continuous learning and opportunities. You’ll be constantly exposed to new concepts, ideas and frameworks from your peers and as you work on different projects — challenging you to stay at the top of your game. To support your development we pay for you to learn by offering unlimited access to Coursera, a platform with thousands of courses for you to learn whatever you want, and acquire new skills.
Unlimited vacation/holidays. We value downtime to recharge and reset, ensuring everyone at ConsenSys has work/life balance. Company-wide we participate in “zero productivity” days every quarter to take a break from work, shut down, and sit back and relax.
One of the most recognized tech companies in the blockchain ecosystem globally. Work experience at ConsenSys is a tremendous reference for your future career. You’ll join a network of entrepreneurs and technologists that reaches the edge of our ecosystem.
About the role
We are currently building our data capabilities and looking for both Data Engineers and Data Scientists. As the first hire on our Data team, your job will be to shape our data engineering practices, working with the Consensys Data Org. You will help address all our variants of data, break down silos, enable best practices, provide first rate resources, and accelerate our mission of becoming a cutting edge data driven organization. Products you will build data pipelines for include MetaMask, MetaMask Institutional, Staking, Activate, Assets, Payments, as well as new product development, data products, and R&D efforts.
Job Responsibilities
- Help teams at Consensys Software elevate their data stacks by acting as a resource on best practices, best tooling, and best engineering.
- Own data relationships between individual product lines units and enable Consensys Software at large working with the Data Org.
- Help orchestrate the ETL pipelines that break down data silos and drive data availability across the company.
- Develop data collection, data management strategies that optimize efficiency and quality.
- Establish standards for data integrity tied to our data dictionary.
- Internally evangelize and spread the gospel on exciting data platforms like Druid, Streaming Architectures (Kafka/Kinesis), BigQuery, dbt, and Looker. Not super experienced in all of these? No worries, we'll bring you up to speed!
- Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain datasets.
- Ensure product managers have the data they need, and all requirements have pipelines to the Consensys Data Org (FiveTran, Big Query, DBT, Looker).
- Independently drive projects; work with fellow data scientists and product teams to identify improvements in efficiency and governance for their current data processes; teach them how to utilize the designed reporting and functionality in their processes.
Required Skills
- 4y+ proven working experience as a Data Engineer.
- Firm understanding of SQL
- Firm understanding of database and data engineering paradigms: row vs columnar, olap vs oltp, streaming vs batch, relational vs non-relational, etl vs elt, datalaking vs warehousing, etc.
- A favorite database (we'll ask!)
- Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques
- Strong knowledge of and experience with databases (SQL, etc), programming (Python, Scala, R) and ETL frameworks
Bonus Points for:
- Experience with Segment, Mixpanel, ZenDesk, LookML (Tableau good too!), BigQuery (Redshift or Snowflake good too!), dbt.
- Experience with Dune Analytics, the Graph, Etherscan, Nansen, block explorers
- Have a passion for crypto, DeFi, Fintech, web3, open platforms, and equal financial opportunity. Demonstrated awareness or interest in the Ethereum landscape, and financial primitives and protocols that live on top of it.
