Data Engineer

About Dune

Dune is on a mission to make crypto data accessible. We’re a collaborative multi‑chain analytics platform used by thousands of developers, analysts, and investors to understand the on‑chain world and the frontiers of finance. We’re a team of ~60 employees, working together across Europe and eastern US timezones. We believe in our mission, and in building a powerful, open product that allows individuals and communities to do deep research into important ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many more. We’re backed by some of the world's best investors.

In February 2022, we announced our Series B funding round led by Coatue and Union Square Ventures, an important milestone that allowed us to double down on our mission. We’re using the funds to educate, reward and empower a new generation of onchain analysts aka Wizards. If you want to have one of the highest impact jobs on the planet, come join our wonderful team of Galaxy brains.

About the role

Dune’s data team turns raw on‑chain activity into trustworthy, reusable datasets that power dashboards, products, and research. We’re hiring a Data Engineer to build and operate reliable pipelines, model complex protocol mechanics into durable schemas, and scale curated datasets across chains. You’ll collaborate with product and our customers, bringing strong data engineering fundamentals and curiosity, with blockchain data intuition as a plus.

In this role you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines that standardize how on‑chain data is consumed by Dune customers.
• Establish the right architecture to ensure data quality and timely delivery, including validation gates, SLAs, observability, and lineage‑aware deployments.
• Triage, analyze, and fix pipeline issues independently, driving root‑cause analysis and long‑term reliability improvements.
• Own end‑to‑end transformation pipelines with robust testing, CI, documentation, and cost awareness from raw to curated layers.
• Build and orchestrate reliable pipelines using modern schedulers and control planes to handle high‑volume community contributions.
• Partner with product, go‑to‑market, and community contributors to unlock clear user value and faster time to insight.
• Replicate curated datasets efficiently into Kafka, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks with appropriate partitioning, compression, and change data capture strategies.

You might be a great fit if you have:

• Strong SQL skills and experience modeling large datasets in modern warehouses, with expertise in at least one of Trino, Snowflake, or ClickHouse.
• Proficiency in Python for pipeline development, tooling, and automation.
• Proven track record operating robust pipelines and orchestration with tools like Prefect, Airflow, Elementary, or similar.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, system design skills, and experience in public cloud and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Ability to analyze, debug, and resolve data pipeline and modeling issues independently in a remote, async environment.
• Strong blockchain data intuition, including reading transactions, events, and traces.
• Interest in query engine internals and performance optimization.
• Experience with data lakes, large‑scale data processing, and systems performance.
• Familiarity with CI for data, observability, cost optimization, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and operations.

Perks & Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies in the space.
• Our employee equity scheme has world‑class employee‑friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10‑year exercise window.
• 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you).
• A fully remote‑first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day.
• We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings!
• Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard.
• We believe in paid parental leave to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2‑week part‑time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule.
• Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany, Berlin, Austria and Athens).
• Each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co‑work with someone or a team of people for a few days.
• An allowance for your at‑home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co‑working space, we’ll pay for your desk.
• Work with some of the best people you’ll ever meet.
• Some awesome Dune swag.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.