Principal Engineer, CoinDesk Data Engineering

About Bullish

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include:
Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar. Coin Desk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.

Coin Desk Data – a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics. Coin Desk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of , a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Reports to: Director, Engineering, Coin Desk

At Coin Desk, we do more than report on the future of money; we actively help shape it. As the global leader in crypto news, indices, and events, we provide the transparency and context the world needs to understand the digital asset revolution. Our team is dedicated to a shared mission of informing, educating, and connecting the global community. Our impact is further amplified by our position within the Bullish Group.

Operating as a subsidiary of Bullish, a regulated, institutional-grade exchange known for its technological prowess, Coin Desk is powered by a partner that shares our fundamental belief in the transformative power of digital assets. We value engineers who treat development as a craft and own the outcome from concept to deployment. You will be expected to navigate the unknown, bring structure to ambiguity, and help shape the frameworks and processes that drive our global teams forward.

We refuse to compromise on quality and seek problem solvers who thrive on high-impact technical challenges.

The Coin Desk Data Engineering Team builds the high-performance infrastructure that powers the world's most trusted crypto market data, architecting resilient systems that process over 26 billion monthly requests for real-time market information. Our technical scope is expansive, encompassing the automated extraction and normalization of data from global exchanges to be served via high-throughput REST APIs, Web Socket streaming, and direct client deliveries.

We operate with a high degree of ownership over mission-critical infrastructure, calculating the flagship indices that power some of the largest ETFs on the market while bridging the gap between creative freedom and institutional-grade stability. As a core part of the global leader in crypto news and indices, our work provides the transparency and context necessary to help shape the future of money.

• Drive Technical Evolution: develop and champion a cohesive, long-term technical roadmap that elevates our existing services (internal, external, REST, streaming) towards a unified and scalable architectural vision.
• Architect for the Future: lead the design of resilient, high-throughput systems, ensuring new solutions are not only robust and secure but also set the standard for future development across teams.
• Tackle Foundational Challenges: act as the technical point person for our most complex cross-team challenges, such as ensuring data resiliency, uptime, or evolving our client facing infrastructure without service interruption.
• Elevate Engineering Excellence: mentor senior engineers on advanced architectural patterns, trade-off analysis, and operational best practices, fostering a culture of technical curiosity and ownership.
• Champion Cross-Cutting Initiatives: identify and lead engineering-wide improvements in areas like observability, developer tooling, and testing strategies to increase performance and reliability across all services.

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