Who is Risk Labs?

Risk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.

What is UMA?

UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.

What is Across?

Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO. Across’ purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient. Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across.

The role

We are looking for a data engineer to help design and scale our data infrastructure. We are a data-driven organization and view the data pipelines that influence these decisions as essential team infrastructure. Your role will include architecting and building that infrastructure as well as working with the data analysts who rely on the pipeline. You’re a healthy mix of wanting to be in the weeds engineering through solutions, appreciate the value of project management and prioritization, while also seeing that you have a knack for leading people and teams to do their best work individually and as a collective.

We believe that many different candidates could be a good fit for this role. Maybe you have a background in building data pipelines at a TradFi or technology firm and looking for your first blockchain related job. Perhaps you have focused mainly on backend development but have a deep familiarity with how blockchain data is organized and processed. Most importantly, we are looking for someone who has deep expertise in building out ETL pipelines and working with data.

Responsibilities

• Indexing complex onchain data: Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access. Gas efficient protocols rely on indexing to keep user experiences snappy, pleasant, and cheap.
• Data engineering: Design and develop large-scale data pipelines to provide the data which drives our understanding of users and our protocol’s real-world performance.
• Code review and mentorship: Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code. We take pride in writing clean code.
• Leading and Scaling teams: Manage priorities, scope deliverables, and project manage alongside various stakeholders. Be willing to think strategically about team coaching and structure, while also getting your hands in the weeds with data engineering work.
• Data Analysis and Research: Translate business problems into scalable engineering solutions, based on a strong intuition and an ability to see beyond just technical requirements but a more holistic picture based on analysis, research, data, and the data engineering knowledge.
• Product mindset: naturally curious to dive deep and understand what the business needs, collaborating with product management, data science, engineering, marketing, etc to drive impact through data

Requirements

• 4+ years full-time experience in Data Engineering at a software, financial services, or related technology organization
• 2+ years of experience with databases and data pipelines
• 1+ years of experience managing people or teams (bonus if you’ve been part of leading teams through scale)
• Outstanding critical thinking skills;
• Low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
• Strong coaching and communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and time management
• Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code
• Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance
• Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options;
• Salaries for this role range from $120-190k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem;
• Will pay in stablecoins or fiat;
• Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)
• 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
• At least two team wide offsites a year

Our values:

1. We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.
2. We value openness, honesty, and directness.
3. We value integrity.
4. We value iterative learning.
5. We value taking smart risks.
6. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.

Why do we love working at Risk Labs?

We are a group that’s aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We’re building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.

UMA’s optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless with its intents based architecture. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life.

Still want to know more?

• Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly… to name a few.
• Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness.
• You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best!