About Dune
Dune is on a mission to make crypto data accessible. We’re a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform used by thousands of developers, analysts, & investors to understand the on-chain world and the frontiers of finance. We’re a team of ~50 employees, working together across Europe and eastern US timezones 🌍️. We believe in our mission, and in building a powerful, open product that allows individuals and communities to do deep research into important ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many more.
We’re backed by some of the world's best investors. In February 2022, we announced our Series B funding round led by Coatue and Union Square Ventures, an important milestone that allowed us to double down on our mission. We’re using the funds to educate, reward and empower a new generation of onchain analysts aka Wizards 🧙♀️
If you want to have one of the highest impact jobs on the planet, come join our wonderful team of Galaxy brains.
Learn more about us:
The Dune Manifesto
Dune's Vision
Values and working at Dune
About the roleDune is pushing the boundaries of real-time data processing, and we’re looking for a talented C++ Engineer to help us build and optimize the next generation of APIs. As an engineer in the data team at Dune, you’ll play a crucial role in developing high-performance, real-time systems that power crypto applications. You’ll work on some of the most cutting-edge technologies directly impacting the user experience.
In this role, you will:Design, implement, and maintain a high-performance custom distributed EVM implementation powering our indexing platform, ensuring it meets industry-pioneering performance and stability requirements of our users.
Work closely with the team to develop new features and increase chain coverage.
Explore, design and implement cutting-edge solutions balancing latency, throughput, reliability and maintainability
Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local tooling, a variety of automated tests, and incremental deployment processes.
Work on one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry.
5+ years experience in high-performance C++ environments
Have some Rust or Go experience
Have a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems
Have a deep understanding of systems programming concepts, particularly in high-performance or real-time applications.
Are familiar with the ethereum virtual machine, execution layer and blockchain technology more generally
Have solid foundational knowledge of distributed systems and storage technologies
Have a strong ability to diagnose complex problems, particularly in distributed and real-time systems, and implement adequate solutions.
Work well in a team environment, are comfortable discussing technical issues, and can effectively collaborate with other engineers to achieve common goals.
Are excited about exploiting old and exploring new ways to improve system performance and reliability
Have a commitment to automated testing, tooling, and engineering best practices
Perks & Benefits
A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies in the space
Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you) 🏖
A fully remote-first approach 🧑💻 within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings!
Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard 🩺
We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule
Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 and Athens 🇬🇷).
On top of this 👆each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days.
An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk.
Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet!
And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎
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We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
