Staff Software Engineer (Market Data)

Join Dune, a leading market data solutions provider for institutional customers. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work on our new market data platform, designing and building distributed systems for real-time market data ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery. You will also partner with teams across Dune on reference data models and historical data capture, and own services through deployment and production support. This is a hands-on role that requires strong engineering judgment and ownership of what you ship.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles

About Dune

• Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data from blockchain and other relevant sources.
• Experience at a company where the data is the product

Responsibilities

• Build and operate streaming solutions that handle event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery, including blockchain reorganizations and finality where they affect customer data.
• Lead technical decisions across team boundaries, write clear designs, and mentor engineers through implementation and review.
• You communicate clearly in writing and work effectively with a distributed team

Requirements

• Financial or market data experience at a financial institution
• You turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic designs and production services, and help other engineers deliver parts of the solution
• You have built and operated distributed backend or data services with demanding reliability and performance requirements. You understand their failure modes and can debug problems across service and data boundaries
• You have experience with realtime streaming systems, including concurrency, state management, backpressure, and recovery. You care about data correctness, from timestamps and numeric precision to schema changes and corrections
• You have strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering skills. Experience in Rust, Go or comparable languages is also valuable
• Reference data experience: instrument and entity masters, identifier mapping, effective-dated records, or tokenized asset and fund data

Preferred

• Onchain data experience: blockchain indexing such as with EVM or Solana