Rain · 15 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $215K/yr
5+ years expRain is a company focused on rebuilding the global financial infrastructure to make stablecoins usable in the real world. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and manage data ingestion, pipelines, and infrastructure to support their growing data ecosystem.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyDecentralized Finance (DeFi)FinTechWeb3
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain Rain’s core data pipelines, including ingestion from payments processors, card issuers, blockchain nodes, internal services, and third-party APIs
Own orchestration and workflow management, implementing Airflow, Dagster, or similar tools to ensure reliable, observable, and scalable data processing
Architect and manage Rain’s data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift), driving performance, cost optimization, partitioning, and access patterns
Develop high-quality ELT/ETL transformations to structure raw logs, transactions, ledgers, and on-chain events into clean, production-grade datasets
Implement data quality frameworks and observability (tests, data contracts, freshness checks, lineage) to ensure every dataset is trustworthy
Partner closely with backend engineers to instrument new events, define data contracts, and improve telemetry across Rain’s infrastructure
Support Analytics and cross-functional teams by delivering well-modeled, well-documented tables that power dashboards, ROI analyses, customer reporting, and key business metrics
Own data reliability at scale, leading root-cause investigations, reducing pipeline failures, and building monitoring and alerting systems
Evaluate and integrate new tools across ingestion, enrichment, observability, and developer experience—raising the bar on performance and maintainability
Help set the long-term technical direction for Rain’s data platform as we scale across new products, regions, and chains
Qualification
Required
Data infrastructure builder – You thrive in early-stage environments, owning pipelines and platforms end-to-end and choosing simplicity without sacrificing reliability
Expert data engineer – Strong Python and SQL fundamentals, with real experience building production-grade ETL/ELT
Workflow & orchestration fluent – Hands-on experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar systems
Warehouse & modeling savvy – Comfortable designing schemas, optimizing performance, and operating modern cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
Quality-obsessed – You care deeply about data integrity, testing, lineage, and observability Systems thinker – You see data as a platform; you design for reliability, scale, and future users
Collaborator – You work well with backend engineers, analytics engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and deliver outcomes
Experienced – 5–7+ years in data engineering roles, ideally within fintech, payments, B2B SaaS, or infrastructure-heavy startups
Preferred
Experience ingesting and processing payment data, transaction logs, or ledger systems
Exposure to smart contracts, blockchain data structures, or on-chain event ingestion
Experience building data tooling for compliance, risk, or regulated environments
Familiarity with dbt and/or semantic modeling to support analytics layers
Prior experience standing up data platforms from 0→1 at early-stage companies
Benefits
Unlimited time off 🌴 Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take at least 10 days off.
Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace. If you feel comfortable at home, please work from home. If you’d like to work with others in an office, feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will receive a stipend to create a comfortable home environment.
Easy to access benefits 🧠For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan.
Retirement goals💡Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.
Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmaker an equity option plan so we can all benefit from our success.
Rain Cards 🌧️ We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to use for testing.
Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!
Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company off-sites both domestically and internationally.
Company
Rain
Rain is a fintech company that builds stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure, allowing businesses and individuals to use tokenized money.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$332.5MKey Investors
ICONIQ CapitalSapphire VenturesNorwest
2026-01-09Series C· $250M
2025-08-28Series B· $58M
2025-03-24Series A· $24.5M
Leadership Team
Farooq Malik
Co-Founder and CEO
Charles Yoo-Naut
Co-Founder and CTO
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