VP, 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 cloud-native services on AWS.

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
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
• 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 and develops data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads.