The Company

Swan is the USA’s #1 Bitcoin wealth platform for families and businesses. We hire passionate Bitcoiners who want to work with a self-motivated and fully distributed startup team.

The Role

We are building a modern data stack to empower data-driven decision-making across our engineering, finance, marketing, sales, product, and operations teams.

As a Data Engineer at Swan, you will take a leading role in designing, building, and scaling our core data infrastructure. This is a high-impact position with significant ownership, giving you the autonomy to influence our technical architecture, define best practices, and create a robust data platform that directly accelerates Swan's growth.

Your responsibilities

Architect and Build: Design, implement, and own scalable data pipelines to ingest and process data from various internal and third-party sources
Own the Warehouse: Manage and optimize our Redshift Serverless data warehouse, ensuring high performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
Model for Impact: Develop and scale our dbt project to deliver clean, reliable, and well-documented data models that empower business intelligence and analytics
Partner with Stakeholders: Collaborate with product, marketing, and finance teams to define and implement robust event tracking schemas and ensure data consistency across the organization
Ensure Data Integrity: Establish best practices for data quality, observability, and monitoring. You'll build alerts and proactive solutions using tools like Datadog to maintain trust in our data
Integrate Critical Tooling: Assist with managing our Customer Data Platform (RudderStack) and integrate key data sources, such as ad platforms and email marketing tools, into our central warehouse
Champion Data Governance: Partner with our security team to implement and uphold data governance standards, ensuring data quality, security, and privacy compliance

Skills and experience that will help you succeed

Proven experience as a Data Engineer or Senior Analytics Engineer, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment where you've built systems from scratch
Deep expertise in a data warehousing (Redshift Serverless preferred) and a strong understanding of performance optimization
Expert-level SQL and Python proficiency for data pipelines and scripting
Hands-on experience building and maintaining data modeling and transformation workflows with dbt
Experience with modern data stack tools, including event streaming/ETL platforms (e.g., RudderStack, Fivetran) and data orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)
Solid understanding of core AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, IAM, Glue) and concepts.
Experience working with data from major ad platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Meta Ads) and marketing automation tools, preferred
Familiarity with BI tools like AWS QuickSight, Tableau, or Looker, preferred
Experience with data governance and security in a regulated industry like FinTech, preferred
US timezones only
Compensation for this role will be based on location and experience, and may include base salary, equity, benefits

Remote pay range (based on location and experience)

$100,000 - $200,000USD

Here's a bit about our culture

We’re a growing team: Fully distributed across the world, Slack and Huddles are huge here.
We’re very flat: Leadership is desired and encouraged; we hire people who care about and use the product they are working on.
We’re Bitcoiners: We find solutions that encourage Bitcoin principles. We are often involved in the Bitcoin community through writing, podcasts, conferences, open-source projects, and time spent on Twitter to help educate the masses. We love Bitcoin, and it comes through in our daily chats, meetings, and actions.

Join us, become a Swan!

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