# Senior Data Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Aleo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/aleo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, GKE
**Posted:** 2026-06-29

> Senior Data Platform Engineer owning end-to-end data infrastructure, pipelines from Aleo blockchain indexers, and APIs serving mobile wallets and explorer on GCP. 60/40 split between data engineering and backend API development; requires 6+ years experience with Node.js/TypeScript, Python, SQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable data infrastructure in GCP.
- Build and optimize data pipelines fed by blockchain indexers to support our blockchain explorer, API, and analytics.
- Design data models that effectively handle the unique privacy and cryptographic constraints of Aleo’s zero-knowledge network architecture.
- Own, develop, and optimize APIs that serve data directly to our mobile privacy wallets and external products.
- Manage and optimize database technologies, with a focus on Postgres and BigQuery.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability through monitoring, logging, and automated alerting.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver high-performance APIs.
- Identify opportunities to optimize the performance and cost of data platforms.
- Utilize infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and Helm) to deploy and manage data environments.
- Help define the technical vision and evolution of our data platform and architecture.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in a Data Platform, Data Engineering, or Core Backend role managing production data systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript for API development and Python for data scripting.
- Expert-level SQL and deep experience optimizing relational databases (Postgres) and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery).
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure automation, specifically Terraform and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Excellent communication skills with a track record of taking end-to-end ownership of critical technical initiatives.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with real-time streaming architectures and event-driven tools (such as Kafka, Debezium, Flink, Airflow, or dbt).
- Deep understanding of Web3 infrastructure, blockchain data structures, and ZK-rollups or privacy networks.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP native services).

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