As a Data Engineer at Nansen, you will build and optimize systems for their customer-facing analytics product, collaborating closely with crypto researchers and engineers to tackle large-scale data challenges and ensure data quality and reliability.
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 around the world.
- Join a team that values autonomy, impact, and execution above all.
- We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, tailored to a remote-first environment.
Top Skills
Ai Tools
BigQuery
Clickhouse
Dbt
Python
SQL
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