Senior C++ Engineer

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:

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Meet the team

About the role

Dune 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.

You might be a great fit for this role if you:

• 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—n