Staff Software Engineer - Market Data

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, RWAs, tokens, lending, trading, and more, 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 are a distributed team across Europe and Eastern US timezones having an outsized impact on the industry. We are backed by top investors including Coatue and Union Square Ventures.

About the Role

Dune is building market data solutions for institutional customers who need timely, accurate, and reliable financial data they can depend on. Our team turns onchain activity into realtime feeds and associated reference data along with historical data capture.

You will work on our new market data platform and help shape how it evolves to support growing features and customer base. You will design systems that scale across chains, protocols, and product capabilities while making clear decisions about correctness, latency, reliability, and cost.

This is a hands-on Staff Engineer role. You will turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic designs and deliverable work, implement complex components, and mentor other engineers. AI-assisted development is a core part of how we work, paired with strong engineering judgment and ownership.

In This Role You Will

• Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data from blockchain and other relevant sources.
• Build and operate streaming solutions handling event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery, including blockchain reorganizations and finality.
• Build reliable client feeds and APIs with clear delivery contracts, schema evolution, access controls, and predictable behavior under load.
• Partner with teams across Dune on reference data models and historical data capture.
• Define and improve service objectives and data quality measures.
• Instrument latency, freshness, completeness, and correctness, turning incidents into lasting operational improvements.
• Debug independently and drive root cause analysis to sustainable fixes.
• Own services through deployment and production support, including participating in an on-call rotation.
• Use AI throughout development to explore designs, implement changes, build tests, investigate failures, and refine documentation.
• Lead technical decisions across team boundaries, author clear design docs, and mentor engineers through implementation and review.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and operating distributed backend or data services with demanding reliability and performance requirements.
• Hands-on experience with realtime streaming systems, including concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery.
• Strong focus on data correctness, ranging from timestamps and numeric precision to schema changes.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering skills; experience with Rust, Go, or comparable languages.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic designs and production services.
• Excellent written communication skills suited for an asynchronous, distributed team.
• Financial or market data experience at a financial institution.

Bonus Points

• Onchain data experience, such as blockchain indexing with EVM or Solana.
• Reference data experience (instrument and entity masters, identifier mapping, effective-dated records, or tokenized asset and fund data).
• Experience at a company where the data itself is the product.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package (top 25% of market) with favorable exercise terms.
• 5 weeks PTO plus local public holidays (swappable).
• Fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours and async-friendly culture.
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for primary caregivers, 6 weeks for secondary caregivers, plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay.
• Quarterly company or team offsites.
• Annual travel allowance for team co-working.
• Home office setup allowance or covered local co-working space desk.
• Dune company swag.