VP, Data Engineer

As VP, Data Engineer at Galaxy Digital, you lead the design and operation of production data platforms that connect the company's institutions to digital assets and power AI and HPC workloads across a multi-gigawatt data center pipeline. You're a hands-on engineer who builds infrastructure enabling autonomous delivery while maintaining reliability and developer experience at scale.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain tooling and infrastructure that lets data champions ship pipelines autonomously
• Own monitoring, alerting, and dataops practices that keep the platform reliable as it scales
• Operate Kafka as the message broker powering cross-team event-driven architecture
• Deploy, own and maintain infrastructure components (services, OSS helm charts) with Terraform and Kubernetes
• Run high-throughput, low-latency processing on Databricks/Spark and cloud-native services on AWS
• Support dbt for transformations and Airflow (or similar) for orchestration across the platform
• Partner with product, analytics, and infrastructure teams on design and delivery of platform improvements
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive fixes
• Embrace and champion thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes, leveraging generative AI, automation platforms, and data copilots to enhance productivity and decision-making

What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years building data or platform engineering systems in production
• Strong coding skills in Python or Java
• Experience operating production data platforms on AWS and supporting downstream teams who build on them
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience running Kafka (or a similar broker) in event-driven systems
• Working knowledge of Databricks/Spark, dbt, and Airflow
• Solid grasp of data modeling, data quality, and relational and non-relational databases (e.g., Postgres, SQL Server)
• Comfort with CI/CD, testing frameworks, and observability tooling

Nice to have

• Experience with dashboarding technologies
• Experience with streaming engines (Flink, kdb)
• Full lifecycle development of a commercial system, including requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support
• Experience in crypto

What we offer

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
• Opportunities to learn about the crypto industry
• Employee Resource Groups

About Galaxy Digital

Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure. The company delivers onchain infrastructure connecting institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure, anchored by its Helios campus in Texas with a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity. Headquartered in New York City, Galaxy has offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.