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Posted 28 Oct 2026

VP, Data Engineer (KDB Developer)

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Engineering
Posted
28 Oct 2026

About the role

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join and help grow Galaxy’s data engineering team in Mumbai at the start of building a next-gen, real-time, cloud-native analytics platform which is powered by kdb+ technology and AI-driven analytics. You will be working in a collaborative startup-like environment with data assets that span digital and traditional finance products, services and markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure stability and quality of real-time ingestion processes
  • Build and support kdb Insights (or KDB-X) modules, packages and pipelines processing billions of real-time messages daily
  • Develop performant queries and functions to support business activities across various trading desks
  • Build SRE tools focusing on proactive detection of performance bottlenecks across the platform’s core q, Python and Java processes running 24x7 in AWS

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of core kdb+/q development
  • Practical experience in developing, deploying and supporting large-scale kdb+ platforms, preferably in AWS
  • Hands-on experience with kdb Insights, including advanced usage of microservices and development of packages, pipelines and UDAs (user-defined analytics)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes services in AWS
  • Development experience using Python data processing libraries and PyKX

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Exposure to building Datadog dashboards with kdb metrics
  • Experience with integrating kdb+ with enterprise lakehouses, specifically Databricks
  • Experience using AI coding agents in development, testing, release and SRE lifecycles
  • Experience in working with crypto products, markets and data

What We Offer:

  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
  • Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
  • Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
  • Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
  • Employee Resource Groups

*Benefits may vary depending on location.

Apply now and join us on our mission to engineer a new economic paradigm.

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