About the role

Junior Data Engineer on the Economics team at Chainlink. Shaping decentralized economics by combining data science and blockchain expertise.

Responsibilities

You will serve two primary functions: (1) designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to help the Economics and Executive Leadership teams make informed, data-driven decisions, and (2) building and maintaining production economics applications.
You will work on a wide array of blockchain economics projects, analyses, and systems, including:
Designing novel mechanisms and incentive schemes
Building data pipelines, models, and simulations to evaluate investment opportunities
Designing and parameterizing economics systems
Optimizing parameters for production applications
Contributing to the design of Economics programs and applications
You will optimize network incentives and systems by engaging directly with the Economics, Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to understand network dynamics at the deepest level.
You will meticulously operationalize processes, and coordinate cross-functionally to implement them.
This is both a highly technical and highly social role. You will have high visibility and a large impact on how Chainlink builds the world’s first fully sustainable decentralized oracle network.

A deep understanding of financial and crypto markets and incentives
Strong foundation in Computer Science principles, including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
Experience with data infrastructure design and implementation in cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
Experience with production-grade software engineering concepts (e.g. git, testing, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)
Strong SQL and Python skills are mandatory
Substantial data analysis and/or data science experience
Meticulous attention to detail.
Strong organizational and coordination skills necessary to productionize and operationalize processes and applications
Strong Computer Science or related Engineering, Economics and/or Finance background through Masters-level academics and/or multiple years of industry experience
A proven interest in DeFi and in remaining current with new products and trends
Experience with LLM-based development tools, onchain data, and orchestration tools such as Airflow and DBT
Experience in data modeling, data warehousing concepts
Published research with an economics or crypto focus (e.g., papers on MEV or PBS, staking and slashing dynamics, node compensation, tokenomics, etc.)

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity