Role overview
OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which are digital goods endowed with property rights. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. NFTs have brand new properties that go beyond traditional digital items: they’re unique, provably scarce, liquid, and usable across multiple applications. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a brand new economy from the ground up based on true digital ownership and are proud to be recognized as Y Combinator's #27 ranked top private company.
When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. We also know how critical it is to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
We're looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial data engineer with an enthusiasm for building and scaling our data infrastructure with modern technologies like Snowflake, Airflow, Looker, Kafka, Spark, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and Postgres. This individual will be the first data engineering hire at Opensea.
What you'll work on
Desired Experience - 5+ years of experience in data engineering/data science/data analytics fields. - Operate under ambiguous and fast moving problem spaces, often cross-functionally. - An ability to write high quality, well tested code. - Potential to grow into a leadership position as the team expands. - (nice to have) A passion or growing interest in decentralized technologies. - (nice to have) An understanding of the basic mechanics of blockchain applications and dApps.