Engineering Manager - Data

Overview

Bit Go is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, Bit Go serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide.

As the operational backbone of the digital economy, Bit Go handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

Bit Go seeks a decisive engineering leader to spearhead and scale our data engineering teams and our data platform. This role critically emphasizes processing and delivering financial datasets where reliability, accuracy, and reconciliation are paramount. You will drive the evolution of Bit Go’s data platform, enhancing data accessibility for internal teams and external stakeholders, including customers and auditors. This role demands the design, construction, and oversight of data solution deployments, capturing, managing, storing, and leveraging structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.

You will collaborate intensely with adept engineers, analysts, data scientists, product managers, and security experts across various domains, gaining comprehensive exposure to all business facets. This is a singular opportunity to profoundly impact a leading team at the forefront of digital asset security and financial technology.

• Build, lead, and scale engineering teams focused on data related services and infrastructure
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting career growth while driving measurable organizational impact
• Partner with product managers, designers, and leadership to translate vision into quarterly roadmaps. Break down complex projects into iterative milestones and lead delivery
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions, uphold engineering best practices, and foster a culture of high-quality code and design
• Own the design, delivery, and operation of our data platform and financial reporting platform
• Set the long term direction and evolution of the data platform
• Collaborate closely with recruiting to identify and attract world-class engineering talent.
• Roll up your sleeves when needed — from reviewing designs and code to triaging incidents or joining on-call rotations

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: delivering trust in digital assets.

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of work experience in data engineering
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• Strong experience with server-side languages like Type Script/Node.
  
  JS/Python/Kotlin
• Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Strong experience with RESTful API design
• Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles
• Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Snowflake, Big Query, Spark, Presto, Druid, etc)
• Strong experience with systems design and event driven systems (Kafka)
• A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
• Experience leading projects and other engineers
• Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience in Git/Git Hub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented…