Data Engineer

The role

This person will build and maintain tooling and infrastructure for data pipelines. They will own monitoring, alerting, and dataops practices while operating Kafka and managing infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the tooling and infrastructure that lets data champions ship pipelines autonomously
• Own monitoring, alerting, and dataops practices that keep the platform reliable as it scales
• Operate Kafka as the message broker powering cross-team event-driven architecture
• Deploy, own and maintain infrastructure components with Terraform and Kubernetes
• Run high-throughput, low-latency processing on Databricks/Spark and cloud-native services on AWS
• Support dbt for transformations and Airflow for orchestration across the platform
• Partner with product, analytics, and infrastructure teams on design and delivery of platform improvements
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive the fixes
• Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes
• Leverage AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years building data or platform engineering systems in production
• Strong coding skills in Python or Java
• Experience operating production data platforms on AWS and supporting downstream teams
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience running Kafka (or a similar broker) in event-driven systems
• Working knowledge of Databricks/Spark, dbt, and Airflow
• Solid grasp of data modeling, data quality, and relational and non-relational databases (e.g., Postgres, SQL Server)
• Comfortable with CI/CD, testing frameworks, and observability tooling

Nice to have

• Experience with dashboarding technologies
• Experience with streaming engine (flink, kdb)
• Full lifecycle development of a commercial system, including: requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support
• Experience in Crypto

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Competitive paid time off
• Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

About the company

Galaxy Digital Inc. is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads.