Software Engineer - Dune

About Dune

Dune's mission is to make onchain finance observable. We're the industry standard for onchain data: a blockchain data and intelligence provider that institutions, protocols, and analysts trust to understand the onchain world and the frontiers of finance. We deliver structured datasets, spanning stablecoins, tokens, lending, trading, and payments, from 130+ chains and counting, to 1,000+ industry leaders including Visa, WisdomTree, FINRA, the IMF, Bloomberg, Standard Chartered, Coinbase, Forbes, and the Financial Times.

We're a team of ~50, working together across Europe and eastern US timezones 🌍️. We believe in building open, verifiable data that lets individuals and institutions do deep research into ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many more.

As a software engineer at Dune focused on Data, you will play a key role in ensuring our data platform scales to accommodate an ever-growing volume of blockchain data. This role involves thinking about large scale distributed systems and distributed databases.

We are building a data platform that:

• Can ingest and process petabytes of data
• Allows third parties to ingest data
• Facilitates performant SQL queries across datasets

In this role you will:

• Design and develop distributed systems in a principled way and take part in high-impact architectural decisions
• Engage in stimulating technical challenges in topics such as distributed systems, very large databases, SQL processing, data modelling, or systems performance
• Assume ownership of components within our blockchain data platform such as data ingestion and decoding
• Write code mostly in Kotlin and Go with some Java and Rust with a strong emphasis on good design and performance
• Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local test setups, integration tests, and incremental deployment processes
• Continually improve how we operate the platform, including seeking opportunities to automate incident diagnosis and resolution using AI
• Work with one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry
• Build AI agents for automation into the team

You might be a great fit for this role if:

• You are a strong generalist with fundamental computer science knowledge, allowing you to easily adapt to new technologies and scenarios
• You have an understanding of distributed system design, or the drive to learn if you're a more junior engineer
• You have an understanding of blockchain technology and RPC interactions
• You have experience with datalakes and formats like parquet, delta, and iceberg
• You have great collaboration and communication skills
• You have coding experience in any JVM language, along with a zeal for writing well-designed, testable software

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package (top 25% of companies in the space)
• World-class employee-friendly equity terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (swappable to suit you)
• Fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours
• Healthy mix of async and sync work with no meeting overload
• Private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard
• Paid parental leave (16 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary) plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay
• Quarterly offsites in exciting locations (Tuscany, Berlin, Austria, Athens)
• Yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with teammates
• Allowance for your at-home setup or local co-working space desk
• Dune swag