VP, Data Engineer (KDB Developer)

As VP, Data Engineer at Galaxy Digital, you will join and help grow the data engineering team in Mumbai, building a next-generation, real-time, cloud-native analytics platform powered by kdb+ technology and AI-driven analytics. You will work in a collaborative, startup-like environment with data assets spanning digital and traditional finance products, services, and markets.

What you'll do

• Ensure stability and quality of real-time ingestion processes
• Build and support kdb Insights (or KDB-X) modules, packages, and pipelines processing billions of real-time messages daily
• Develop performant queries and functions to support business activities across various trading desks
• Build SRE tools focusing on proactive detection of performance bottlenecks across the platform's core q, Python, and Java processes running 24x7 in AWS

What you bring

• 5+ years of core kdb+/q development
• Practical experience developing, deploying, and supporting large-scale kdb+ platforms, preferably in AWS
• Hands-on experience with kdb Insights, including advanced usage of microservices and development of packages, pipelines, and UDAs (user-defined analytics)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes services in AWS
• Development experience using Python data processing libraries and PyKX

Nice to have

• Exposure to building Datadog dashboards with kdb metrics
• Experience integrating kdb+ with enterprise lakehouses, specifically Databricks
• Experience using AI coding agents in development, testing, release, and SRE lifecycles
• Experience working with crypto products, markets, and data

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. Galaxy delivers on-chain infrastructure connecting institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization, while also developing and operating data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Headquartered in New York City with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity through its Helios campus in Texas.