Job Description

• \xef\xb8\x8f About Merkle Science

Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for web3 companies, digital asset service providers, financial institutions, law enforcement and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent illicit use of cryptocurrencies. Our vision is to make cryptocurrencies safe and provide infrastructure for the safe and compliant growth of cryptocurrencies.


Merkle Science is headquartered in New York with offices in Singapore, Bangalore and London. The team has combined experience across Bank of America, Paypal, Luno, Thomson Reuters and Amazon. The company has raised over US$27 MM from SIG, Beco, Republic, DCG, Kenetic, GGV and several others.

What will you do?

• • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture for our workloads. This includes building highly resilient architecture for both streaming and batch ETL processes.
    
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    Have a good understanding of data structures used by public blockchains to store data. A significant portion of our data pipelines parse blockchain data and store them in our data warehouses.
    
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    Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements. This includes expanding the scope of our data-mining efforts by building data pipelines to crawl data from the dark-web, open-web, third party data sources.
    
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    Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organisation.
    
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    Works closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and analysts to render data on to our products.
    
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    Implement algorithms to transform raw data into useful information.
    
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    Build, Manage and Deploy AI / ML workflows.
    
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    Lead technical architecture, design and best practices for the team.
    
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    Establish and follow operability as part of design principles.
    
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    Good knowledge of Site reliability concepts, such as RCA, postmortems and run-books and related automation.
    
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    Strong DevSecOps principles.

What are we looking for?

• • >6+ years of relevant experience as Big Data Engineer.
    
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    Experience in building data pipelines(ETL/ELT) using open-source tools such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam and Spark.
    
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    Experience in building realtime streaming pipelines using Kafka/Pubsub.
    
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    Experience in building and maintaining OLAP and OLTP data warehouses.
    
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    Good understanding of python, bash scripting and basic cloud platform skills (on GCP or AWS).
    
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    A working knowledge of Docker is a plus.
    
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    Problem-solving aptitude.
    
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    Analytical mind with a business acumen.
    
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    Excellent communication skills.

What process do we follow? (<2 weeks)

• • Application: We will keep it simple. You can apply directly through our job portal. All we ask for is a Resume. Additional Portfolio links such as Github, Medium or a Personal website are welcome.
    
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    Screening: We will screen your profile and get back with a decision within a week.
    
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    Interviews: We will have two rounds of interviews.
  • Round one (30mins) will focus on getting to know each other better and identifying if this could work for both of us.
    
    
  • Round two (60mins) is a technical round where we will review your prior experience and discuss how you would build systems to solve a problem we will introduce on call.
    
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    Meet the Team: Culture-Fit is essential for both you and us. So we always go the extra mile, and you will meet two other colleagues on the team who you would be working with. Here, you could discuss questions on stack, culture and some other things you might be interested in if you had a consideration for a new role.
    
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    Offer Rollout: If all looks well, we will open a bottle of champagne.

\xe2\x9d\xa4\xef\xb8\x8f Well Being, Compensation and Benefits
We care about your well-being. Along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, learning & development initiatives and hours that are designed to provide work/life balance. We regularly host team-building sessions and encourage discussions around mental health.


We reward talent and believe in acknowledging people for their contributions. We offer industry-leading compensation, along with generous equity. As a rapidly growing business, there are endless opportunities to grow your career with Merkle Science.