UK or EU / Remote | Full-Time
The Nym team is a world-class mix of privacy experts, engineers, and thinkers spread across the globe. We believe user privacy underpins democratic freedoms in a networked world, and we're proud to help roll back the surveillance society.
Nym is at the forefront of privacy technology. With the upcoming launch of our flagship product, NymVPN, we are seeking a skilled and privacy-oriented Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you’ll bridge the gap between development and research, innovate methods to securely store and process privacy-sensitive data, and contribute to Nym's mission of advancing privacy-preserving technologies, not limited to NymVPN.
If you’re passionate about privacy tech, blockchain, and data engineering, we’d love to hear from you!
In Your First Month, You Might:
- Assess and refine existing data storage solutions to ensure compliance with privacy standards.
- Develop and implement secure, reliable, and scalable methods for managing and storing data while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.
- Collaborate closely with developers and researchers to align on data requirements.
- Build and maintain data collection systems to gather, clean and analyse data from the Nym network (e.g., network data, on-chain data).
- Explore and evaluate existing open-source frameworks and tools (e.g., for data storage, visualization, monitoring and integration) to identify the best fit for Nym’s data workflows.
- Present initial findings and gather feedback to enhance data processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a bridge between development and research teams to support data-driven decisions.
- Design and implement robust and secure data pipelines, storage solutions and ETL processes to collect process, and store data from various sources.
- Ensure data privacy and security compliance in all data processes.
- Ensure the integrity, scalability, and accessibility of data for internal and external stakeholders.
- Implement and enforce data quality standards and governance practices to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across all workflows.
- Develop and maintain data access points to enable seamless integration and data usage by internal and external developers, adhering to best practices for security and privacy.
- Build and maintain dashboards for presenting insights to multiple stakeholders.
Key Experience:
- At least three years of professional experience as a Data Engineer.
- Strong understanding of data privacy principles and frameworks, including K-anonymity.
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as SQLite and PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Redis, and tools like Grafana, Pocketbase, ClickHouse (a bonus) or similar tools.
- Experience with Rust or a willingness to learn is advantageous.
- Understanding of blockchain technology, working with on-chain data.
- Excellent communication skills to present data insights visually and verbally.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and a privacy-first mindset.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
What we offer you:
- A diverse and collaborative team of 50+, interested in learning and solving problems together.
- 6 Weeks annual leave plus national holidays.
- Yearly learning and development allowance.
- IT hardware package tailored to your role.
- Remote working (with a bias towards being able to do in-person meetups periodically).
