Senior Cloud Architect
Our mission is to de-risk the DeFi industry to enable users to make better informed investment decisions.
Experience
5+ Years
Location
Austin, TX (partial remote)
Job Type
Full-time
Job Summary
You write software. You’ve been doing it for a long time. You’ve designed large systems, some of them might have been called platforms. You’ve incurred technical debt. You’ve fixed things just in time. You’ve suffered. You’re still hands-on – definitely not ivory tower! – but know enough to help our CTO evaluate and make complicated design choices. This is a full-time job. Software changes fast. Our CTO is focused on delivery for the business. She doesn’t have time to consider every tradeoff. Her focus is more short-term than yours will have to be, but she can’t make smart short-term decisions without knowing what might come next.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain data ETL pipelines
- Create and maintain data lake schemas
- Create and maintain API features for users to access data
- Overall system design
- Technology evaluations and recommendations
- Documentation
- Guidance for the engineering teams
- You’re still hands-on – definitely not ivory tower!
- Knows how to work with models
- Knows how to work with blockchains
The Ideal Candidate
- Has written a lot of software
- Has designed complex systems in cloud environments
- Has handled large data pipelines and efficient data stores
- Can describe several epic failures
- Understands databases
- Understands queuing system
- Understands caching
- Understands blockchain technologies
- Has worked with model builders
- Understands how to operationalize their work
About the team
Credmark aims to provide high integrity data and risk metrics through a transparent, community-driven platform. By leveraging our community, we provide transparent models and data that can be used to make better investment decisions. Our goal is to be both a credible resource in the crypto community and a creator of useful tools & products inside and outside of crypto.
We’re a funded crypto startup; and we’re looking for engineers who want to work on stuff that matters, because we believe that providing an alternative to our current financial system matters.
