VP, Data Engineer (KDB Developer)

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join and help grow Galaxy’s data engineering team in Mumbai at the start of building a next-gen, real-time, cloud-native analytics platform which is powered by kdb+ technology and AI-driven analytics. You will be working in a collaborative startup-like environment with data assets that span digital and traditional finance products, services and markets.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure stability and quality of real-time ingestion processes
• Build and support kdb Insights (or KDB-X) modules, packages and pipelines processing billions of real-time messages daily
• Develop performant queries and functions to support business activities across various trading desks
• Build SRE tools focusing on proactive detection of performance bottlenecks across the platform’s core q, Python and Java processes running 24x7 in AWS

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of core kdb+/q development
• Practical experience in developing, deploying and supporting large-scale kdb+ platforms, preferably in AWS
• Hands-on experience with kdb Insights, including advanced usage of microservices and development of packages, pipelines and UDAs (user-defined analytics)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes services in AWS
• Development experience using Python data processing libraries and PyKX

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to building Datadog dashboards with kdb metrics
• Experience with integrating kdb+ with enterprise lakehouses, specifically Databricks
• Experience using AI coding agents in development, testing, release and SRE lifecycles
• Experience in working with crypto products, markets and data

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

Apply now and join us on our mission to engineer a new economic paradigm.

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