Vice President, Data Engineer

Who We Are:
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world and were building the products and services to make that future a reality.

Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading investment banking asset management staking self-custody and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.

We work at the intersection of finance and technology helping institutions startups and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.

Galaxy is headquartered in New York City with offices across North America Europe the Middle East and Asia.

To learn more about our businesses and products visit .

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individualswhothrive in a culture of builders and overachieversandembrace high performance transparent feedback and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are:

Youre a hands-on data engineer with several years of experience building and operating production data pipelines. Youre fluent in Python or Java and comfortable across the modern data stack AWS Databricks/Spark dbt and Airflow. You care about data quality write clean and well-tested code and like owning systems end-to-end. Youre curious about crypto and energized by working at the intersection of finance and emerging technology.

What Youll Do:

• Partner across Galaxys business lines (Trading Custody Asset Management Mining) to build and enhance a reliable and scalable data platform
• Design build and maintain scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming)
• Develop and operate high-throughput low-latency data processing systems
• Work within the Databricks and Spark ecosystem to support large-scale data workloads
• Build and maintain cloud-native data solutions on AWS
• Leverage dbt for transformation data modeling testing and documentation
• Use Airflow (or similar orchestration tools) to manage and schedule data workflows
• Write clean efficient and well-tested code following best practices in software engineering
• Collaborate closely with product analytics and infrastructure teams to deliver impactful data solutions
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help improve system performance scalability and reliability
• Support production systems by troubleshooting issues and implementing improvements
• Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes.
• Leverage AI tools (e.g. generative AI automation platforms data copilots) to improve productivity decision-making and output quality in your day-to-day work.

What Were Looking For:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
• 5 years of professional experience in data engineering or distributed systems
• Strong hands-on coding experience in Python Java or similar languages
• Experience building and operating both batch and streaming data pipelines
• Strong experience with AWS Databricks/Spark and modern data architectures
• Hands-on experience with dbt for transformations and Airflow (or similar) for orchestration
• Solid understanding of data modeling data quality and production data systems
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. Postgres SQL Server)
• Familiarity with CI/CD testing frameworks and monitoring tools

Bonus Points:

• Experience with dependency injections frameworks ideally: Spring Guice HK2
• Experience with Docker
• 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
• Flexible Time Off (paid)
• Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Free daily snacks in-office and weekly lunches
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart entrepreneurial and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

*Benefits may vary depending on location.

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age race color creed religion sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation marital or partnership or caregiver status ancestry national origin citizenship status disability military or veteran status protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic or other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview please contact