Senior Data Engineer
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BitMEX is one of the earliest cryptocurrency exchanges with a derivatives trading platform. BitMEX was founded in 2014. However, it was with the introduction of perpetual futures that the exchange became immensely popular.

BitMEX truly revolutionised the industry by introducing perpetual industry and changed how traders thought of trading Bitcoin. The exchange is registered in Seychelles.

BitMEX is mainly based out of Hong Kong. However, they do have offices in other US cities such as Chicago, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco.

If you're looking for BitMEX Jobs, expect to be extremely competent. With the popularity of the exchange, they expect their employees to be the best in their fields. If you feel you are, check out some of the jobs below:

About BitMEX

BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with no coin lost, ever!.

Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies.

In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances.

The Data Engineering team is part of the broader DevOps department, and sits at the core of the business, bridging the fast-paced and never-ending data feeds from the BitMEX trading platform to the entirety of the firm. Whether it is about business development, financial products, risk management, compliance & market surveillance, marketing consistent and reliable data is key, making Data Engineering the cornerstone to the firms success.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enhancements to our data warehouse, data lake, and data pipelines to increase their reliability and consistency
• Improve queriability of large historical datasets through industry-standard tools, careful data representation and aggregation for both technical and business units

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years experience in the data engineering field with demonstrated design and technical implementation of data warehouses
• Experience with OLAP databases, how they differ from OLTP databases, and data structuring/modeling with understanding of key data points in a business sense for trade-offs between storage/performance and usability
• Experience building, deploying, and troubleshooting reliable, idempotent and consistent data pipelines working with disparate in-house and external data-sources, e.g. using Airflow DAGs
• Experience with AWS Redshift, Glue Data Catalog, S3, PostgreSQL, Parquet, Iceberg, Trino, and how they are managed using Terraform & Kubernetes
• Candidates with less experience will be considered for the Data Engineer position

Why BitMEX?

BitMEX is a place of intense work, fun, and diversity, all at the same time. We hire across different time zones, to support the growing demands and to bring in the best of the best talents across the world.

We are looking for individuals who are determined, responsible and collaborative to join BitMEX as we continue to build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value attention to detail, speed and simplicity. As a global business operating a 24/7 exchange, we seek out those who are adaptable and can work across markets in a diversity team.

We provide flexible arrangements to our remote contract talents with:

• Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
• Paid holidays and leave so you wont miss out any important events
• Team building & offsite eventsto bring our global team closer
• Take advantage of ourBeyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
• Option to choose to bepaid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom

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