Director - Database Engineering

At Space and Time, we are solving Web3’s toughest data analytics challenges at planetary scale with decentralized, peer-to-peer technology. We are building the data foundation of Web3: a fully decentralized and community-operated data warehouse, using novel cryptography to connect tamperproof query results directly to smart contracts. This enables joining trustless on-chain and off-chain data in a single platform, allowing Web3 developers to build new use cases quickly. Our team is growing fast, backed by the top L1 blockchains and VCs, as well as enterprise partners such as Microsoft and Samsung NEXT.   A career at Space and Time is lucrative, fast-paced, and very creative. We value you (and all your ideas) like family and we bring an endless supply of perks. This includes flexible workweeks + flexible vacation, add-on bonuses for hard work, we attend exciting events/conferences/parties, we’re headquartered on the beach near LA (but don’t mind you working remote), and most importantly- we provide analytics technology to the largest dApps, DAOs, DeFi/DEXs, GameFi, NFT platforms, enterprises, etc. We are committed to growing a diverse and welcoming team in a safe space to be yourself and learn from the most innovative minds in blockchain and data warehousing. Help us invent the first truly decentralized data platform! As the Director for our Data Platform Engineering team you will be leading highly skilled engineers and tech leads responsible for developing hosted cloud analytics infrastructure, distributed SQL processing frameworks, proprietary data science platforms, and core database optimization. This team is responsible for building the automated, intelligent, and highly performant query planner and execution engines, RPC calls between data warehouse clusters, shared secondary cold storage, etc. This includes building new SQL features and customer-facing functionality, developing novel query optimization techniques for industry-leading performance, and building a database system that's highly parallel, efficient and fault-tolerant. This is a vital role reporting to exec leadership and senior engineering leadership. The US salary range for this full-time position is $190,400 - $250,200. In addition to your base salary, your total compensation package will include a targeted annual bonus, RSU, and benefits.   Individual base pay depends on various factors, such as the complexity and responsibility of the role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

Responsibilities

• Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members
• Leading architecture development, execution and leaning into cloud – public, private and hybrid environments
• Develop a vision and strategy for the product portfolio and management execution with regards to data acquisition, engineering, and governance, database tuning, automated database management, sharding, etc
• Building tools, platforms and database integrations to turn a low-level backend data platform into a user-facing hosted cloud solution
• Scaling up from proof of concept to “cluster scale” (and eventually hundreds of clusters with hundreds of terabytes each), in terms of both infrastructure/architecture and problem structure
• Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate meta data capturing and management
• Managing a team of software engineers writing new code to build a bigger, better, faster, more optimized HTAP database (using Apache Spark, Apache Arrow and a wealth of other open source data tools)
• Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components
• Highly engaged with industry trends within analytics domain from a data acquisition processing, engineering, management perspective
• Understand how data and analytics use cases across Web3 and major blockchains can be optimized through cluster-compute of SQL at extreme scale, on a global decentralized p2p network
• Develop the future leaders of Space and Time by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities.
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical/agile decision-making

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Masters or PhD a plus.
• 8+ years experience engineering software and data platforms / enterprise-scale data warehouses, preferably with knowledge of open source Apache stack (especially Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, and others)
• 3+ years experience leading/growing high-performance software eng teams
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query planning, optimizing and distributed data warehouse systems experience is preferred but not required
• Knowledge of blockchain indexing, web3 compute paradigms, Proofs and consensus mechanisms… is a strong plus but not required
• Experience with rapid development cycles in a web-based environment
• Strong scripting and test automation knowledge
• Passionate about Web3, blockchain, decentralization, and a base understanding of how data/analytics plays into this
• Ability to engage senior business leaders and translate between the needs of the business and the demands of / capacities of technology
• If remote, willingness to let us fly you into Southern California to meet with the leadership team up to once a month (to connect in-person for a few days)

Benefits:

• Ultra competitive salaries
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, disability/life insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Aggressive bonus structure and/or Space and Time token allocations (similar to stock options)Very flexible PTO and paid holidays and flexible workweek
• Very flexible remote work options
• A massive list of perks including discretionary add-on bonuses for hard work, attending exciting events/conferences/parties, we’re headquartered on the beach near LA (but don’t mind you working remote)
• Notice to Third Party Recruitment/Staffing Agencies:
• Space and Time Labs, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruiters or employment agencies without a binding, fully executed, written agreement. Any written or verbal communication with any person within Space and Time Labs, Inc. does not create a binding agreement.
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Space and Time Labs, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruiters or employment agencies without a binding, fully executed, written agreement. Any written or verbal communication with any person within Space and Time Labs, Inc. does not create a binding agreement.