Software Engineer - Data Foundation

About Dune

Dune's mission is to make onchain finance observable. We're the industry standard for onchain data: a blockchain data and intelligence provider that institutions, protocols, and analysts trust to understand the onchain world and the frontiers of finance. We deliver structured datasets, spanning stablecoins, RWAs, tokens, lending, trading, and more, from 130+ chains and counting, to 1,000+ industry leaders including Visa, WisdomTree, FINRA, the IMF, Bloomberg, Standard Chartered, Coinbase, Forbes, and the Financial Times.

We're a tight knit team of ~50 hard working people, spread across Europe and eastern US timezones , having an outsized impact on the industry. We take pride in being ambitious and doing world class work while staying humble and lighthearted. We believe in building open, verifiable data that lets individuals and institutions do deep research into ecosystems like Ethereum, Solana, Robinhood 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 let us double down on our mission.

If you like being challenged and want to work together with a brilliant team on an important mission, come join us.

Learn more about us:

Dune's Vision

https://dune.com/blog/dune-vision

Values and working at Dune

https://dune.com/careers

As a software engineer in Dune focused on Data you will play a key role in ensuring our data platform scales to accommodate an ever-growing volume of blockchain data. This is a role that involves thinking about large scale distributed systems and distributed databases, and is ideal for anyone passionate about those topics.

We are building a data platform that:

• Can ingest and process petabytes of data
• Allows third parties to ingest data
• Facilitates performant SQL queries across datasets

In this role you will:

• Design and develop distributed systems in a principled way and take part in high impact architectural decisions
• Engage in stimulating technical challenges in topics such as distributed systems, very large databases, SQL processing, data modelling, or systems performance
• Assume ownership of components within our blockchain data platform such as data ingestion and decoding
• Write code mostly in Kotlin and Go with some Java and Rust with a strong emphasis on good design and performance
• Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local test setups, integration tests, and incremental deployment processes.
• Continually improve how we operate the platform, including seeking opportunities to automate incident diagnosis and resolution using AI
• Work with one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry.
• Building AI agents for automation into the team.

You might be a great fit for this role if:

• You are a strong generalist with fundamental computer science knowledge. You use this knowledge to easily adapt to new technologies and scenarios, and to find the right solutions for the problems at hand.
• You have an understanding of distributed system design, or the drive to learn if you’re a more junior engineer. Our work is as much about understanding and designing systems as it is about coding in a particular language.
• Have an understanding of blockchain technology and RPC interactions
• Have experience with datalakes and formats like parquet, delta, iceberg
• You have great collaboration and communication skills. We work on the principle that the best output emerges from effective team work and constructive discussions.
• Coding experience in any JVM language, along with a zeal for writing well-designed, testable software

PERKS & BENEFITS

• A competitive salary and equity package . Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies https://notion.so/Careers-at-Dune-Doing-the-best-work-of-your-life-f25e0b5e1f624d2aaf3ef2c81558ea96#7f745f5112394686bd7c127c720f2024 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
• Say goodbye to meeting overload! 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 …