Senior Data Engineer, Blockchain data and/or NLP pipelines

Advanced Python and SQL.

Proven experience building and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines under an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Step Functions, or equivalent), including backfills, idempotency, retries, schema drift, and on-call for your own pipelines.

Hands-on with PostgreSQL/RDS and object storage (S3).

Serving data to consumers: building and versioning APIs (Kong OSS, FastAPI, or similar) and/or feeding dashboards.

Docker, Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline), and IaC (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent).

Streaming and near-real-time architectures (Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS).

Document stores (MongoDB) and analytical engines or warehouses (ClickHouse, DuckDB, Snowflake, Athena).

Graph data modeling and querying (Neo4j/Cypher or comparable).

Transformation and data-quality tooling (dbt, Great Expectations, Soda, OpenLineage).

Vector stores (pgvector, Qdrant, OpenSearch).

Go; Kubernetes.

Domain:

Blockchain ledger data, smart contracts, or web3 languages (Solidity, Vyper, Go, Bitcoin Script)

NLP techniques, LLM integrations, or model feature engineering

Financial services, trading venues, or regulatory frameworks (SEC, CFTC, FinCEN)

OSINT, dark web, or social platform data collection

We operate in a fully remote, high-trust environment and prioritize impact and delivered results over hours logged.

We offer competitive compensation and healthcare stipend.

We invest in our people through childcare stipends and dedicated employee assistance resources.

Join a thought leader at the intersection of national security and digital assets, working with cutting-edge tech that defines the field.

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Inclusion & Equal Opportunity: As a veteran-owned company, Inca Digital thrives on diverse perspectives, specifically across race, gender, neurodivergence, and veteran status, to solve complex data challenges. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to protected status, including disability or national origin.