Senior Data Engineer

Solana Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to the adoption and security of the Solana network. They are seeking a highly driven Senior Data Engineer to collaborate with engineers, create data pipelines, and ensure efficient data processing to enhance the effectiveness of their ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and efficient data processing techniques
• Familiarity with blockchain technologies, including transaction data, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms
• Strong 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)
• 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