About Coin Metrics

Coin Metrics is the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, offering network data, market data, indexes and network risk solutions to a wide range of market participants and observers . Since 2017, we have served the industry by offering granular data and insight dashboards that surface both blockchain and market trends. Our aim is to help builders as well as investors create new and sophisticated markets that are transforming how the world understands value. Our service is unique, our history is deep, and our market position gives us a front-row seat into the evolution of not just a new industry, but also its impact on global finance.

Coin Metrics puts unparalleled insight and accuracy into crypto data and analytics so that companies can accelerate value creation and minimize risk. Just as crypto markets are expanding, so are we. If the below job description sounds like it was written for you, get in touch!

YOUR PURPOSE

As a Protocol Specialist you will work with our team to support our network (on-chain) data products and services. Join a fast-paced startup pioneering novel metrics, data products, and insights surrounding the economics, markets, usage, health, and other aspects of public blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other prominent Layer-1 networks. You will be surrounded by talented people passionate about decentralized economies and the data behind them. Break new ground, create exciting new data-driven research and products, and help shape future economies.

YOUR VALUE

• Understanding and creating relevant research (including protocol overviews) on blockchain protocols’ inner workings (infrastructure requirements, data structures, governance, economics, etc)  
• Assessing various blockchain clients and the RPC / API interfaces, understanding the data structures, and documenting the end-to-end interaction with these protocols from the perspective of node running and data interpretation 
• Working with blockchain protocol teams and communities to help Coin Metrics act as a trusted partner and steward of their networks, providing feedback and actively contributing to their open source efforts
• Staying on top of protocol changes and how those changes impact Coin Metrics’ downstream applications
• Collaborating with backend data extraction and interpretation teams and infrastructure teams to alert them of protocol changes that could impact Coin Metrics’ applications/operations 
• Working collaboratively with our research, engineering and infrastructure teams to increase our on-chain asset coverage
• Acting as the relevant protocol expert on sales and client service interactions

YOUR EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• Deep knowledge of and interest in blockchain networks and their data structures (you want to live and breath crypto protocols)
• Proficiency in a major programming language such as Kotlin/Java/Python (Kotlin preferred or willingness to learn Kotlin if not already proficient)
• Proficiency in SQL (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Proficiency building, maintaining, testing data pipelines and warehousing
• Participation (e.g., engaging with protocol teams, making proposals, providing feedback) in a blockchain community is a plus 
• Strong sense of ownership, entrepreneurial spirit, and/or startup-like experience, capable of driving towards solutions independently while seeking feedback when appropriate