Senior Market & Trading Data Engineer

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Who We Are At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me , Do the Right Thing , and Get Things Done . These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more. About the Opportunity You will join our Data & Analytics team, which owns two core data domains end to end: • Public market data — trades, quotes, funding, and full order-book data continuously captured from global crypto exchanges at petabyte scale. • Proprietary trading data — orders, fills, positions, balances, and settlement activity streamed from internal desks and systems. We are one team rather than separate engineering and analytics functions. The same people build pipelines, model data, validate its correctness, and answer the business questions it supports. You will see data problems through end to end: from the exchange connection or internal source through to the analysis produced from it. This is an exciting time to join. We are rebuilding the platform on ClickHouse, Apache Iceberg, and Kafka while continuing to support live trading. The work combines substantial platform design with hands-on ownership of business-critical data. What You’ll Be Doing • Build and operate pipelines that bring market and trading data into our platform, including ingestion, parsing, normalization, validation, and storage. • Build and extend Python- and SQL-based datasets and data models used by trading desks, quants, research, and analytics teams. • Own data correctness through source reconciliation, data-quality and completeness checks, gap and duplicate detection, backfills, and replays. • Investigate discrepancies end to end. Trace unexpected numbers through the pipeline to the source and fix root causes rather than symptoms. • Onboard new exchanges, venues, products, and internal data sources, addressing real-world external-feed behaviour including authentication, rate limits, disconnects, missing history, and schema changes. • Support data users through query support, data access, APIs, and client libraries. • Operate what you build, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for owned pipelines and datasets. • Contribute to the migration toward ClickHouse, Iceberg, Kafka, and Kubernetes by running new and legacy paths in parallel, reconciling results, and cutting over safely. • Use AI coding assistants and LLM tooling to improve development, debugging, and data investigation, while applying sound judgement and independently validating outputs. • Depending on team needs and your strengths, develop deeper expertise in either real-time platform and pipeline engineering or proprietary trading-data datasets and analysis. Both are core to the team. What We Look For In You • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. • 3–5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, software engineering, or analytics engineering. • Strong production-quality programming skills in Java, Python, or both. • Sound data-modelling judgement. You can design schemas that scale with evolving data and use cases, including keys,

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