Data Engineer

About Luxor

Luxor is the leading software and services provider for Bitcoin miners and the broader compute industry. Our full-stack platform supports gigawatts of compute infrastructure, giving operators the tools to monetize their compute, optimize and trade hardware, access financial instruments, and manage energy.

We believe that compute power is becoming the world's next major commodity and our products are built to support this shift. Our goal is to become the leaders in harnessing, refining, and trading compute, unlocking a new asset class for the world's most important digital resource.

As Luxor continues to scale rapidly across software, hardware, financial, energy and cloud infrastructure products, every team member has the opportunity to shape mission-critical systems, influence company-wide strategy, and contribute directly to the future of the compute economy.

The Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our collaborative, and fast-moving team to work on one of the most rewarding projects in the mining and compute industry.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable and reliable data pipelines that provide accurate data feeds from internal and external systems.
• Govern scalable and performant cloud-deployed production relational and non-relational databases.
• Collaborate on architecture definitions, always thinking of solutions that are scalable and secure.
• Drive data systems to be as near real-time as possible.
• Design, document, automate and execute test plans to ensure the quality of the datasets.
• Participate in the process of generating and analyzing features.

Requirements

• Experience building both streaming and batch data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles.
• Expert in Python, PostgreSQL, and PL/pgSQL development and administration of large databases with focus on performance and production support on native cloud deployments.
• Experience with scalability solutions and multi-region replication and failover solutions.
• Experience with data warehouse technologies (Trino, Clickhouse, Airflow, etc).
• Bachelor's degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of programming and experience with at least one programming language.
• English language proficiency.

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• 4+ years of working experience in relevant data field.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology / mining pool industry.
• Experience with agile development methodology.
• Experience delivering and owning web-scale data systems in production.
• Experience working with Kafka, preferably redpanda and redpanda connect.

The Ideal Candidate

• Passionate about cryptocurrency and public-blockchain technologies.
• Has an interest in creating an entirely new market with Hashrate (compute power) as a commodity.
• Has an interest in thinking and evolving the architecture of our software to make it robust and maintainable.
• Enjoys writing code and pushing boundaries of what has been done so far.
• Brings fun to the team but can also go own the rabbit hole to push quality code on schedule.