Data Engineer

Nansen is a leading blockchain analytics platform that empowers investors and professionals with real-time, actionable insights derived from on-chain data.

The Opportunity:

As we scale our data infrastructure to meet the growing complexity and volume of the crypto ecosystem, we’re hiring a Data Engineer to build and optimise systems that power our customer-facing analytics product.

You'll work with a collaborative, pragmatic team of product and data engineers engineers to solve hard technical problems with real-world impact — powering tools used daily by thousands of crypto investors, builders, and institutions.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate closely with crypto researchers, other engineers, and product managers to shape how data is modeled, surfaced, and productized.
• Tackle large-scale data challenges, processing terabytes of streaming and batch data daily.
• Design, build, and scale performant data pipelines and infrastructure, primarily using ClickHouse and dbt.
• Ensure high standards for data quality, reliability, and observability across all systems.
• Bring fresh thinking to the table, staying current with best practices and evolving your toolkit over time.
• Use AI tools and Agents such as Cursor, MCPs and LLMs to accelerate development, automate repetitive work, and boost quality.

What We're Looking For:

• A proven track record of building and scaling high-performance data systems in production.
• Expertise in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience using dbt, ClickHouse, and BigQuery.
• Strong grasp of streaming data architectures and experience handling large-scale data volumes.
• Comfortable working full-stack with data, from ingestion and transformation to storage, modeling, and serving.
• Experience using AI-powered tools in day-to-day development and a natural curiosity to push boundaries with them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You’re confident working in a remote-first, async team.
• A pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset. You value fast feedback loops, clean architecture, and scalable design.
• Experience with, or strong interest in, blockchain data structures, crypto, and Web3 technologies.

Why Join Nansen

• Remote-first & async-native: Work from anywhere. No unnecessary meetings.
• AI-native team: Work in a team of AI trailblazers.
• High-impact work: You’ll shape the data architecture of a fast-growing crypto platform.
• Work on massive-scale data challenges in one of the fastest-growing industries.
• Influence product and technical direction from day one.
• Build systems that power the decision-making of crypto investors.
  
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