Staff Software Engineer - Market Data

The role

You will work on a new market data platform to design and build distributed systems for realtime market data. You will turn ambiguous requirements into designs and implement difficult parts of the platform.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data
• Build and operate streaming solutions that handle event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery
• Build reliable client feeds and APIs with clear delivery contracts, schema evolution, and access controls
• Partner with teams across Dune on reference data models and historical data capture
• Define and improve service objectives and data quality measures
• Instrument latency, freshness, completeness, and correctness
• Debug independently and drive root cause analysis to a fix
• Own services through deployment and production support, including on-call rotation
• Use AI throughout development to explore designs, implement changes, build tests, and investigate failures
• Lead technical decisions across team boundaries and mentor engineers

Required qualifications

• Built and operated distributed backend or data services with demanding reliability and performance requirements
• Understand failure modes and can debug problems across service and data boundaries
• Experience with realtime streaming systems, including concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery
• Strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering skills
• Communicate clearly in writing
• Work effectively with a distributed team
• Financial or market data experience at a financial institution

Nice to have

• Experience in Rust, Go or comparable languages
• Onchain data experience: blockchain indexing such as with EVM or Solana
• Reference data experience: instrument and entity masters, identifier mapping, effective-dated records, or tokenized asset and fund data
• Experience at a company where the data is the product

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Employee equity scheme with heavily discounted strike price and 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks PTO plus local public holidays
• Fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours
• Private medical insurance, dental and vision
• Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• 2-week part-time phased return at full pay for caregivers
• Quarterly offsites
• Yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work
• Allowance for at-home setup or local co-working space
• Annual allowance for Learning and Development needs
• Dune swag

About the company

Dune is a blockchain data and intelligence provider that delivers structured datasets from 130+ chains to industry leaders. The team consists of approximately 50 people spread across Europe and eastern US timezones.