About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries. Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.The Opportunity:Uphold is looking for a Data Engineer with a focus on Infrastructure to join our Data team.
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to join a team of engineers, scientists, and analysts who are passionate about data and technology and have a great sense of collaboration and responsibility.As a key member of our dynamic Data Team, you will play a pivotal role in the architecture, implementation, and maintenance of our intricate data systems and pipelines. This encompasses not only ensuring the seamless and efficient flow of data throughout our organization but also optimizing existing processes for maximum throughput, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
Your expertise will directly enable our data products and data-driven decision-making at all levels, impacting our overall business strategy, product development lifecycle, and ultimately, our bottom line.What you'll be doing primarily:
- Accelerate data users' productivity by empowering your fellow teammates with data tooling and systems.
- Collaborate with data and analytics engineers to establish best practices for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and deployment.
- Collaborate with data analysts and data scientists to understand their requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and provide automation support for their machine learning and analytical needs.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Reliability engineers from the Engineering and Infrastructure teams to guarantee smooth integration and deployment of data solutions within the Uphold ecosystem, ensuring alignment with company standards, security policies, and technology adoption.
- Developing, managing, and optimizing data environments and Cloud (AWS) systems that are performant, scalable, and monitored.
- Designing, enhancing, and maintaining automated, reliable, and secure data pipelines and infrastructure services to facilitate efficient data flows between various internal and external sources and our data warehouse and lake.
- Establishing and upholding CI/CD pipelines to facilitate seamless deployment and automation of data processes.
- Establishing best practices for version control, testing, and security of data pipelines and workflows.
Required qualifications:
- Degree, preferred in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Strong background in Data Engineering and/or DevOps, with experience designing scalable and composable systems.
- Experienced with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.
- Proficient in managing containerized solutions using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build automation, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools.
- Strong knowledge of Python.
- Understanding infrastructure management as code, and experience using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and Crossplane.
- Knowledge of the concepts behind immutable infrastructure.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Solid understanding of network and data security concepts, preferably within AWS, including IAM roles, VPC configurations, and security groups.
- Experience working with a data warehouse/data lake environment and leveraging data within distributed systems in a cloud-based environment.
- Knowledge of real-time data streaming technologies, such as Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka.
- Familiarity with methodologies/best practices such as the GitHub Flow, Test Driven Development, Code Coverage, Continuous Testing & Integration.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.Bonus if you have:
- Spent lots of quality time coding non-trivial scripts and automating tasks to automate yourself out of the job.
- Experience with AWS data engineering tools (Kinesis, S3, Glue, DMS, SageMaker).
- Experience with ETL/ELT orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster).
- Familiarity with Airbyte, Fivetran, or similar data integration tools.
- Knowledge of Change Data Capture (CDC) practices.
- Exposure to MLOps frameworks like MLFlow or Kubeflow.
- Experience with Customer Data Platforms such as Segment or Customer.io.
- Proficiency in SQL-based and non-relational databases (Snowflake, Redshift, Aurora, Postgres).
- Experience with dbt and scalable data modeling best practices.
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Looker, Metabase, Tableau, or PowerBI.
- Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
- Contributions to open-source projects, blogs, or public talks are a plus.
What we have to offer you:
- Innovation and Impact: Be a part of a company driving innovation and making meaningful impact. Work on cutting-edge projects in a stimulating and challenging work environment.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer a salary, stock options, performance-based bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.
- Strong Company Culture: Join a supportive and positive work environment built on shared values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.
- Global All-Hands Calls: Regular sessions to share updates, strategize, and foster connections.
- Development: Opportunities for training and mentorship programs.
- Flexibility: Work from home, from other locations or slightly different hours available.
- Inclusive and Diverse Environment: Foster an environment where different perspectives are valued.
Benefits:
- Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.
- Home office stipend to support the setup of a productive home office.
- Generous PTO, healthcare coverage, and employee assistance programs.
- Interesting and fun events and celebrations.
- Foodie culture and well-stocked office kitchen.
Join our team and embark on a fulfilling career where you'll have the opportunity to grow, innovate, and contribute to something meaningful. Come and be a part of our talented team! If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our careers page to check out all our exciting opportunities. EEOC EmployerWe're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes.
Difference makes us stronger and better - together.
