Senior Data Engineer at Phantom

About Phantom

Phantom is dedicated to connecting the world to the freedom of open markets. Millions of people globally use Phantom to access markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins, and memes. Phantom users can discover relevant markets and cultural moments, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom empowers users to control their financial moves in the same app they use for secure storage or spending worldwide. Phantom has achieved #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories, recognized by Forbes Fintech 50 and CNBC and Statista's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026.

We are a team of around 180 people, operating fully remotely, and are backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Paradigm.

Role Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer at Phantom, you will be instrumental in building and scaling the foundation that powers analytics, experimentation, and decision making across the company. You will tackle complex onchain data problems that few crypto companies can manage. You will join a lean, high-impact team directly influencing product growth and user trust. This role requires collaboration with Data Science, Product, and Engineering to design scalable data systems that integrate blockchain data, product analytics, and marketing integrations, enabling the entire company to move faster and with greater confidence.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Scale: Design and implement robust data architecture capable of handling hundreds of Terabytes with a 10x growth trajectory while maintaining high performance and reliability.
• Data Quality Leadership: Lead data quality initiatives across the organization by implementing observability and monitoring solutions to ensure data accuracy, freshness, and reliability.
• Data Modeling Excellence: Lead sophisticated data modeling efforts to support exponential business growth, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Experimentation Infrastructure: Build and scale A/B testing frameworks to enable data driven decision making across the organization.
• Cross-functional Partnership: Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor teams on data best practices and drive the adoption of data driven methodologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of extensive experience building and scaling data infrastructure in high growth environments.
• Proven experience in startup settings, showing a track record of wearing multiple hats and driving initiatives independently.
• Deep expertise in modern data stack tools, especially Snowflake and dbt.
• Strong background in data modeling, schema design, and data architecture at scale.
• Demonstrated experience implementing data quality frameworks and observability solutions.
• Experience building and scaling experimentation (A/B testing) infrastructure.
• Expert level SQL skills and proficiency in Python.
• Track record of successfully managing data infrastructure during periods of explosive growth.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with our tech stack: Snowflake, dbt, Rudderstack, Sigma Computing, Metaplane, Eppo.
• Experience with blockchain or cryptocurrencies.
• History of improving dashboard performance and query optimization at scale.
• Experience implementing data cataloging and metadata management solutions.

This ideal candidate should be a seasoned data professional capable of architecting solutions for our next growth phase while upholding the highest standards of data quality and performance. Success in a lean two person data team requires resourcefulness and the ability to prioritize high impact work.

Why Work With Us

Phantom's journey started with making crypto simpler. Now, we are building on that foundation to help people discover meaningful markets, make informed financial moves, and safely store or spend money worldwide.

Joining Phantom means helping shape the next chapter:

• Build for global impact: Create products used by tens of millions of people, making innovative financial markets accessible to users around the world.
• Make complexity feel simple: Solve meaningful challenges across design, engineering, and user experience to make discovering markets and managing money seamless.
• Put users in control: Help build a future where people have greater freedom over their assets and financial decisions, anchored by security and self custody.

Benefits (For Full Time Employees Only)

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive insurance (medical, dental, vision) with the base plan 100% covered.
• Flexible hours and a supportive long standing remote environment.
• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Wellness stipend.
• Weekly meal stipend.
• Learning & Development stipend.
• Remote / WFH set up stipend.

We strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We believe our work is stronger with diversity of perspectives and are eager to further diversify our company. If your background can make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying.

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