Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dune is building market data solutions for institutional customers, turning onchain activity into realtime feeds, reference data, and historical data. The Staff Software Engineer will design and build the market data platform, ensuring correctness, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency while leading technical decisions and supporting other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data from blockchain and other relevant sources
- Build and operate streaming solutions that handle event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery, including blockchain reorganizations and finality where they affect customer data
- Build reliable client feeds and APIs with clear delivery contracts, schema evolution, access controls, and predictable behavior under load or when consumers fall behind
- Partner with teams across Dune on reference data models and historical data capture
- Define and improve service objectives and data quality measures
- Instrument latency, freshness, completeness, and correctness, and turn incidents into lasting improvements in recovery and operations
- You will debug independently and drive root cause analysis to a fix that holds
- Own services through deployment and production support, including participation in the team’s on-call rotation
- Use AI throughout development: explore designs, implement changes, build tests, investigate failures, and improve documentation. Develop repeatable workflows and share what works with the team
- Lead technical decisions across team boundaries, write clear designs, and mentor engineers through implementation and review
Skills
- You have built and operated distributed backend or data services with demanding reliability and performance requirements
- You understand their failure modes and can debug problems across service and data boundaries
- You have experience with realtime streaming systems, including concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery
- You care about data correctness, from timestamps and numeric precision to schema changes and corrections
- You have strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering skills
- You turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic designs and production services, and help other engineers deliver parts of the solution
- You communicate clearly in writing and work effectively with a distributed team
- Experience in Rust, Go or comparable languages is also valuable
- Financial or market data experience at a financial institution
- Onchain data experience: blockchain indexing such as with EVM or Solana
- Reference data experience: instrument and entity masters, identifier mapping, effective-dated records, or tokenized asset and fund data
- Experience at a company where the data is the product
Benefits
- Equity package; employee equity scheme with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
- 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you)
- A fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
- A healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings
- Private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard
- Paid parental leave: 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid, plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay
- Quarterly offsites in various locations as a company or team
- A yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days
- An allowance for your at-home setup; if you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk
- Dune swag
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