Staff Data Engineer - Remote Role at MoonPay

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our team at MoonPay, a leader in the crypto payments space. This remote Staff Data Engineer position offers you the chance to shape the future of digital finance by evolving and scaling our data platform. You will work on systems that power analytics, product insights, integrations, and data science, ensuring they are reliable, secure, and built to last in a regulated environment.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the evolution of our data platform across streaming, batch, warehousing, governance, and data science enablement.
• Help define and champion architectural principles that allow teams to build safely, consistently, and independently.
• Work closely with compliance and security teams to design systems that meet reliability and regulatory requirements.
• Identify long-term technical risks and guide pragmatic, incremental improvements.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our data platform as usage grows.
• Evolve our streaming and warehouse infrastructure to support increasing real-time and batch workloads.
• Provide technical direction within the data platform domain through design reviews, mentoring, and hands-on contribution.
• Support teams in making sound trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• Experience contributing to the architecture of a broad data platform.
• Strong understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, along with modern data warehousing approaches.
• A track record of aligning engineers and stakeholders around shared technical standards.
• Experience designing for reliability, cost management, governance, and compliance at scale.
• Familiarity with working in regulated environments.
• Experience with tools such as Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and SQL is helpful.

Nice to Have

• Experience in mentoring senior engineers and helping grow technical depth across the organization.
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, particularly GCP.
• Experience with observability and operational maturity.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary package.
• Equity package for all employees.
• Pay for performance equity bonus.
• Unlimited holidays for work-life balance.
• Hybrid working schedule with remote options.
• Private healthcare benefits.
• Annual training budget for your professional development.
• Home office setup allowance.