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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at BitGo'
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# Senior Data Engineer at BitGo

- **Company:** BitGo
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo/jobs/8880860002

## Job description

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit [www.bitgo.com](http://www.bitgo.com).

This role will require being full-time onsite in our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

BitGo is seeking a skilled Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build, scale, and optimize our data platform, reporting infrastructure, and data-driven products.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record as both a Software Engineer —developing and scaling applications that support our product suite — and a Data Engineer — designing and implementing robust data infrastructure to move and transform data efficiently.

At BitGo, Data Engineering plays a critical role in enabling insights and innovation. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform that makes data accessible and actionable for other engineering and product teams, empowering them with the tools and frameworks needed to seamlessly integrate data into their products. You'll collaborate closely with talented engineers, analysts, data scientists, product managers, and security experts across multiple domains, gaining exposure to all facets of our business.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-impact team at the forefront of digital asset security and financial technology.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that collect, transform, and curate data from internal systems.
- Integrate select external data sources to enrich the data platform.
- Develop applications that support customer-facing products and internal systems.
- Enhance and expand BitGo’s blockchain reporting infrastructure and automated reconciliation systems.
- Ensure high data quality and auditability across all pipelines.
- Optimize data systems for near real-time processing and insights.
- Develop and customize self-service tools, empowering data consumers to efficiently extract and analyze data from BitGo’s large-scale data platform.
- Research, evaluate, and prototype new technologies to drive continuous improvement in data engineering.

Skills & Experience:

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: delivering trust in digital assets.

Required

- Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years of combined Software Engineering AND Data Engineering work experience
- Strong experience with server-side languages like TypeScript/Node.JS/Python
- Strong experience with SQL databases like Postgres or MySQL
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Experience building data pipelines/ETL and familiarity with design principles
- Experience with data warehouse technologies and relevant data modeling best practices (Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Presto, Druid, etc)
- Strong experience with systems design and event driven systems (Kafka)
- A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
- Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience in Git/GitHub and branching methodologies, code review tools, CI tools, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable with inclusion in on-call rotations for system support
- Effective written and verbal communication skills

## Preferred

- Experience in Financial Services and/or Financial Technology
- Understanding and strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry
- Experience with large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
- Experience with data governance, handling PII, data masking

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem-solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Benefits may vary based on location.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $180,000 and $220,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

## About BitGo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BitGo is a digital asset infrastructure and financial services company providing secure custody, staking, trading, and stablecoin solutions for institutional investors and builders.
- **Entity Type**: Private – raised $384.3M in total funding (last venture round in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport, Will O'Brien, Bill Lee

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Digital asset custody, blockchain infrastructure, financial services (cryptocurrency)
- Target customers: Institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, and asset managers (B2B)
- Mission: "Accelerating the transition of the financial system to the digital asset economy" [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)

## Products & Services
- **BitGo Custody**: Multi-signature hot and cold wallet custody services, with non-custodial and custodial configurations – secures over $100B in digital assets.
- **BitGo Prime**: Prime brokerage services for institutional trading, including OTC and electronic trading.
- **BitGo Staking**: Staking infrastructure for proof-of-stake assets.
- **Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)**: BitGo serves as the sole custodian for bitcoin backing the WBTC token, enabling Bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum.
- **Stablecoin Issuance**: Issuer of SoFiUSD (for SoFi Bank) and custodian for USD1 (World Liberty Financial) and frxUSD (fractional reserve stablecoin).
- **Blockchain Security APIs**: APIs for transaction building, signing, and settlement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $384.3M; assets under custody – over $100B in digital assets; secures ~20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint Ventures (led Series A), Galaxy Digital and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (led Series B), Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, and other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Brassica (2024), Harbor (2020), Hedge (2019), HeightZero (2023), and Lumina (2020). However, headcount declined ~75% YoY to 65 employees as of early 2026, though the company has 51 active job postings across engineering, sales, compliance, and trust administration [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo) [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest independent digital asset custodian** – trusted by institutions and issuers of major tokens (WBTC, stablecoins).
- **Multisignature security model** – keys split between custodian and wallet owner, with both hot and cold storage options.
- **Regulatory trust infrastructure** – operates as a qualified custodian and trust company in multiple jurisdictions.
- **10+ years of operational history** in the volatile crypto market, surviving multiple cycles.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening institutional-grade prime services (trading, lending, settlement).
- Expanding stablecoin issuance and custody partnerships (SoFi, World Liberty Financial).
- Growing international presence with offices in 9 countries (US, Canada, UK, Singapore, India, UAE, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan).
- Leveraging acquisitions (Brassica, Harbor) to offer tokenization and transfer agent services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Open communication, craftsmanship, accountability, collaboration, client-first [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance; competitive compensation with stock options; 401k plan; top-end computer equipment [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Global, distributed team; hybrid/remote flexibility (multiple remote roles listed); offices in Palo Alto, New York, Toronto, London, Singapore, Dubai, and others.
- **Engineering culture**: Polyglot stack, focus on security and blockchain protocols; strong hiring from Google, Amazon, Coinbase, and Waterloo.
- **Notable**: Despite recent headcount reduction, the company is actively hiring for engineering, sales, compliance, and trust roles – a sign of strategic refocusing.

## Sources
1. [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)
2. [bitgo.com/careers](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
3. [bitgo.com/about](https://www.bitgo.com/company/about-us/)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)

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