Job description
About Decentraland
Decentraland is a decentralized virtual world where creativity, community, and technology converge.
As an open metaverse, it offers a massive, continuous 3D space filled with user-generated content, from games and immersive art to social hubs and virtual events. Every experience is created and owned by the community.
Whether you’re attending a live concert, exploring a museum, or building your own interactive scene, Decentraland invites users to redefine what’s possible in a digital universe.
Learn more: https://decentraland.org/
The challenge
Decentraland Foundation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the evolution of our decentralized data infrastructure, powering the data backbone of our Blockchain and Gaming ecosystem. You will architect, develop, and optimize robust data pipelines and platforms that enable reliable, scalable, and insightful data access for diverse teams across the company.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain complex ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows using Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Meltano within our AWS-based infrastructure.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of data services running on our own infrastructure—supporting batch and real-time data processing needs.
- Collaborate closely with analytics, product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into effective data models, KPIs, and dashboards using Metabase and Segment.
- Develop automated solutions for ingesting, transforming, and modeling blockchain, gaming telemetry, and user interaction data to drive actionable insights.
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives to evolve our data platform architecture and enable data democratization across Decentraland.
- Explore innovative approaches to capturing and leveraging decentralized data aligned with the blockchain and gaming domains.
The Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data engineer or similar role focused on large-scale data infrastructure.
- Advanced proficiency with Python for building data pipelines and automation.
- Expertise building and optimizing data warehouses and transformations on Snowflake and dbt.
- Strong experience orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow and managing data ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services related to data processing and storage.
- Familiar with modern data stack components such as Meltano, Metabase, and Segment, including deployment and monitoring on own infrastructure.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Demonstrated experience extracting, processing, or integrating blockchain data is highly desirable.
- Passion for working in the blockchain/gaming industry and decentralized architectures.
The nice-to-haves
- Experience with telemetry tools like Prometheus and implementing observability for data systems.
- Open source contributions related to data engineering or blockchain.
Join Decentraland to empower the data-driven future of blockchain gaming through scalable, cutting-edge data engineering.
What we offer:
- A fully remote and flexible working environment.
- A collaborative and fast-moving team culture.
- 29 annual PTOs.
- Long-term incentive of MANA tokens, vested over a 4-year period.
- Additional tokens linked to annual performance review.
- Stipend policy to cover remote work & wellness-related expenses.
- Brand-new equipment for remote work, including laptop, screen and chair.
- Parental leave.
- Reimbursement for English/Spanish lessons
- Annual team offsite
About Decentraland Foundation
The Decentraland Foundation is a steward of the Decentraland platform, dedicated to ensuring its long-term growth, security, and sustainability. It contributes to core development, platform infrastructure, and ecosystem health. Its responsibilities include managing Decentraland’s brand and events, safeguarding the community from misinformation and scams, maintaining smart contract security, contributing to the platform’s codebase, and proposing critical updates in coordination with the DAO. As a neutral actor in service of the ecosystem, the Foundation works to foster innovation and empower creators, developers, and communities within Decentraland.
