Experience Required:
!Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field. Masters or PhD a plus.
! 8+ years experience engineering software and data platforms / enterprise-scale data warehouses, preferably with knowledge of open source Apache stack (especially Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, and others)
! 3+ years experience leading/growing high-performance software eng teams
! A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
! Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query planning, optimizing and distributed data warehouse systems experience is preferred but not required
! Knowledge of blockchain indexing, web3 compute paradigms, consensus mechanisms, etc
! Experience with rapid development cycles in a web-based environment
! Strong scripting and test automation knowledge
! Passionate about Web3, blockchain, decentralization, and a base understanding of how data/analytics plays into this
! Ability to engage senior business leaders and translate between the needs of the business and the demands of / capacities of technology
Responsibilities:
! Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members
! Leading architecture development, execution and leaning into cloud public, private and hybrid environments
! Develop a vision and strategy for the product portfolio and management execution with regards to data acquisition, engineering, and governance, database tuning, automated database management, sharding, etc
! Building tools, platforms and database integrations to turn a low-level backend data platform into a user-facing hosted cloud solution
! Scaling up from to cluster scale (and eventually tens or even hundreds of clusters) problems, in terms of both infrastructure/architecture and problem structure
! Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate meta data capturing and management
! Managing a team of software engineers writing new code to build a bigger, better, faster, more optimized HTAP database (using Apache Spark, Apache Arrow and a wealth of other open source data tools)
! Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components
! Highly engaged with industry trends within analytics domain from a data acquisition processing, engineering, management perspective
! Understand how data and analytics use cases across Web3 and major blockchains can be optimized through cluster-compute of SQL at extreme scale, on a global decentralized p2p network
! Develop the future leaders of Space and Time by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities.
! Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
! This Job comprises of 60% managerial role and 40% technical role.
What we offer
! Aggressive bonus structure AND tokens (similar to stock options)
! Very Flexible PTO and paid holidays, and flexible workweek
! Very flexible remote work options A massive list of perks including add-on bonuses for hard work, attending exciting events/conferences/parties, were headquartered on the beach near LA (but dont mind you working remote) and well fly you to our company offsites.
Regards
Team HR
Keyskills: scala apache spark blockchain director - data platform engineer apache arrow