dune - Staff Software Engineer - Curated Data

East Coast US & Europe (Remote) - Hybrid+ Equity3w ago

In Office Staff EMEA Oil & Gas Software Engineer Staff Engineer SQL dbt Kafka Plane Kotlin

Requirements

• Deep experience with a transformation framework such as dbt or SQLMesh: specifically, having hit its limits and built beyond them • Data lake formats such as Parquet, Iceberg or Deltalog • Stateful stream processing in production (Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming) • Experience at a company where the data is the product

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane for our curated data lifecycle: dependency-aware orchestration, backfills, restatements, retries, partial failure, and recovery • Decide, dataset by dataset, whether the answer is a model, a service or a job, and own that architecture through production • Design the contracts between ingestion and curation so a dataset can be reasoned about end to end • Build alerting and data quality signals that catch real problems and stay quiet otherwise, so on-call is about incidents rather than noise • Work across Go, Kotlin, Rust, Python and SQL, choosing the right tool rather than the familiar one • Break large problems into work other engineers can own, and sequence it so we ship something useful early • YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT IF • You are a backend engineer who has gone deep on data systems, or a data engineer who became a strong software engineer. You ship production services, not only pipelines • You have built or materially extended orchestration and scheduling systems, and can explain precisely what breaks at scale and why • You have handled schema evolution and data correctness in a system with real consumers downstream, where a breaking change has a cost • You have built or operated stateful stream processing in production (Flink,Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, RisingWave, Materialize, Feldera) • You have strong SQL and modeling skills on large datasets, and an interest in how the query engine underneath actually executes your work • You have solid computer science fundamentals and distributed systems understanding • You debug independently and drive root cause analysis to a fix that holds • You use AI tools well enough that they have changed how you work, you understand their failure modes and dislike ai-slop. • You communicate clearly in writing and get the best out of a distributed team

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies https://notion.so/Careers-at-Dune-Doing-the-best-work-of-your-life-f25e0b5e1f624d2aaf3ef2c81558ea96#7f745f5112394686bd7c127c720f2024 in the space • Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms 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 • Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings! • Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard 🩺 • We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule • Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 and Athens 🇬🇷). • On top of this 👆each person gets 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, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk. • Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet! • And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag https://community.dune.com/lookbook! ✌️😎 • ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.