Solana Foundation
blockchain
SeniorDataEngineer
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“Senior Data Engineer at Solana Foundation. Skills: data engineering, data pipelines, big data frameworks, big data and pipelining, distributed data systems, cloud platforms. Collaborate with blockchain engineers to index blockchain data and create robust data pipelines. Efficiently parse and index a variety of data formats, ensuring high performance and low latency”
What You'll Achieve.
making sense of this data will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of each release and inform apps how to best serve their customers
Industry & Context.
making sense of complex data
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles, understanding of data structures, algorithms, and efficient data processing techniques, understanding in one of the following big data frameworks: Spark, Iceberg, Polars, or Delta-rs, Proficient in big data and pipelining (Clickhouse, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Pub/Sub), Experience with distributed data systems and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Nice to Have
Familiarity with blockchain technologies, including transaction data, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms, Especially beneficial if you have experience with Solana data and the Solana ecosystem, Have contributed to open source projects, Have served AI uses cases through deploying live agents or MCP to production environments, Proficiency in Rust
What You'll Do.
Collaborate with blockchain engineers to index blockchain data and create robust data pipelines
Efficiently parse and index a variety of data formats
ensuring high performance and low latency
Help gather and formulate scores for informative metrics like decentralization scores
transaction inclusion performance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with blockchain engineers
Full Job Description
WHO WE ARE The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build. THE OPPORTUNITY Solana Foundation is seeking a highly driven Senior Data Engineer. The ideal candidate also has an acumen for inference, making sense of complex data and telling the correct story. At Solana Foundation we facilitate development across the ecosystem - the core protocol, infrastructure and apps. Making sense of this data will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of each release and inform apps how to best serve their customers. There are enormous possibilities for Solana to facilitate multiple trillion dollar financial industries like markets, payments, asset management. This role has the potential to grow along with the industry. TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE You will: - Collaborate with blockchain engineers to index blockchain data and create robust data pipelines - Efficiently parse and index a variety of data formats, ensuring high performance and low latency - Document technical processes and solutions to ensure knowledge sharing across the team. - Work with the Solana Improvement Document process to make sure updates are smooth and don’t see regressions during testing or in live environments - Help gather and formulate scores for informative metrics like decentralization scores, transaction inclusion performance, and economics. You ideally have: - 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles - Strong understanding of data structures, algori
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