How to Apply to Dune

13 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 5 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Dune Analytics is the leading SQL-based blockchain analytics platform, Oslo-headquartered with NYC and remote footprint, roughly 60 to 80 employees, valued around $1 billion after a 2022 Series B led by Coatue.
  • All applications flow through Ashby at jobs.ashbyhq.com/dune, linked from dune.com/careers. As of this guide there are 5+ open roles concentrated in GTM, Engineering, and Customer Solutions.
  • The hiring process is typically 4 to 6 weeks end to end, with recruiter screen, hiring manager, technical or role-specific assessment, 3 to 4 person panel, and a founder round for final candidates.
  • Interviews favor craft depth, written communication, and mission conviction over credentials. SQL fluency is a quiet screen for every role, including non-technical ones.
  • Dune's culture is Nordic-calm, crypto-native, and thin-process. Candidates who thrive on ambiguity, asynchronous writing, and low-ego collaboration do best.
  • Compensation is base plus equity, with explicit attention to international tax structures. Timezone overlap with Europe plus US East Coast is an operating constraint, not a preference.
  • The crypto winter shaped recent strategy. Expect questions about market cycles, cost discipline, and durable value creation rather than hypergrowth narratives.
  • Recent product bets to understand before interviewing: DuneAI text-to-SQL, the Dune app ecosystem, and the Wizard community as a go-to-market and product-led growth engine.

About Dune

Dune Analytics, operating simply as Dune, is a blockchain analytics platform that lets anyone write SQL queries against raw on-chain data and publish the results as shareable dashboards. Founded in 2018 in Oslo, Norway by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen, the company began as a two-person project to make Ethereum data less opaque. It has since grown into one of the most important infrastructure layers in crypto research, used by analysts at hedge funds, protocol teams, venture capital firms, journalists, and tens of thousands of independent researchers known inside the community as Wizards. Dune's official careers page at dune.com/careers lists the team at roughly 60 employees as of early 2026, though public estimates place headcount closer to 70 to 80 when contractors and extended staff are included. The company maintains a primary hub in Oslo with a meaningful presence in New York City and a remote footprint across Europe and the United States East Coast. The product itself is conceptually simple and operationally ambitious. Dune ingests the full transaction history of major blockchains, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, zkSync, BNB Chain, and many others, and exposes that data through a SQL interface that sits on top of a high-performance analytics stack. Under the hood the platform has evolved from a Postgres-centric architecture to one that leans heavily on columnar storage engines such as Databricks and DuneSQL built on Trino, with custom indexers written in Rust and Python handling the firehose of new blocks. The user-facing application is a TypeScript and Next.js web app that layers a query editor, a charting engine, and a social layer on top of that data warehouse. The social layer matters. Dashboards are public by default, can be forked like GitHub repositories, and attribution flows back to the author, which is how the Wizard economy works. Dune's commercial model blends a generous free tier for individual analysts with paid plans that unlock private queries, larger query limits, API access, and the newer DuneAI text-to-SQL product. Protocol teams, exchanges, and research firms are the primary revenue base, and business development to protocols is an explicit go-to-market lane. In February 2022, Dune announced a $69.42 million Series B led by Coatue with participation from Union Square Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and a number of angel investors drawn from the crypto operator community. The round valued the company at approximately $1 billion, making Dune one of the few European-headquartered crypto infrastructure unicorns. That funding has carried the company through the 2022 to 2024 crypto winter, a period during which Dune shrank its pace of hiring, narrowed product scope, and focused intensely on core platform reliability and on the app ecosystem that now layers on top of Dune as a data source. Recent strategic moves worth understanding as a candidate include the launch of DuneAI, a natural-language-to-SQL assistant that lowers the barrier to query authoring, the expansion of the Dune app ecosystem where third parties build lightweight applications on top of Dune queries, and ongoing experiments with Dune DAO-style community governance. The culture is unmistakably crypto-native. Employees hold, trade, and study on-chain assets as a routine part of their work. The team uses its own product daily. The tone on the company blog and in its public communications is earnest about the mission of making crypto data accessible, but it is also clear-eyed about the cyclical, regulated, and reputation-sensitive nature of the industry. If you do not have conviction that public, verifiable on-chain data matters, Dune is not the right fit.

Application Process

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    Step 1 — Identify the right role at dune.com/careers, which redirects to jobs.ashbyhq.com/dune. As of this guide's publication there were 5 active listings across Engineering, GTM, and Customer Solutions, spanning Oslo-friendly Europe remote, New York, and Singapore. Read the full posting carefully. Dune postings are unusually specific about timezone overlap expectations, which are typically Europe plus US East Coast.

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    Step 2 — Prepare a concise application packet. Dune uses Ashby's standard application form, which accepts a resume upload, LinkedIn URL, optional portfolio or GitHub link, and a short cover letter or motivation field. For technical roles, include a link to your Dune profile if you have one, even if it is light. For any role, include a link to one or two public dashboards, queries, GitHub repositories, or written analyses that demonstrate you can reason about on-chain data.

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    Step 3 — Submit through Ashby. Applications go to jobs.ashbyhq.com/dune/{role-id}/application. You will receive an automated confirmation within minutes. Dune's recruiting team is small and the inbound pipeline is heavy, so response times typically fall in the 5 to 15 business day range. Silence beyond three weeks usually means the role has been filled or paused rather than a delayed decision.

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    Step 4 — Recruiter screen, typically 30 minutes over Google Meet. A member of the people team will confirm your motivation for joining Dune, your timezone, your compensation expectations in both base and equity terms, and your familiarity with the crypto industry. Be ready to explain, in plain language, why on-chain data matters and what you have done with it, even if only as a curious user.

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    Step 5 — Hiring manager conversation. This is a 45 to 60 minute deep dive with the person you would report to. Expect questions about your last two roles, a worked example of something you shipped, and a discussion of how Dune fits into your career arc. The hiring manager will also probe your comfort with ambiguity, since Dune operates with small teams and thin process.

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    Step 6 — Technical or role-specific assessment. Engineers receive either a take-home coding exercise scoped to roughly 4 to 6 hours or a live pair-programming session covering SQL, TypeScript, Python, or Rust depending on the team. Data-adjacent roles receive a SQL exercise over a public Dune dataset. GTM candidates complete a written deal-strategy or territory-plan exercise and present it live. Product and design candidates walk through a portfolio piece and respond to a hypothetical product problem.

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    Step 7 — Panel loop with 3 to 4 interviewers. The panel covers craft depth, cross-functional collaboration, and culture contribution. For engineering roles there is usually a systems-design conversation focused on data pipelines, query performance, or cost-to-serve tradeoffs. For GTM there is a roleplay with a simulated protocol customer. Expect at least one interviewer to be based in Oslo and one in the United States, which is why timezone overlap matters.

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    Step 8 — Founder or executive round. Final-stage candidates speak with one of the co-founders (Fredrik Haga, CEO, or Mats Olsen, CTO) or a member of the executive team. This conversation is as much about mission conviction as about skills. Expect to be asked what you believe about crypto, where you think Dune should invest next, and what you would change about the product in your first quarter.

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    Step 9 — References and offer. Dune typically requests 2 to 3 backchannel references before extending an offer. Offers are presented verbally, then in writing through Ashby's offer module. Compensation is structured as base salary plus equity, with an explicit discussion of tax implications for international hires. Dune publishes role-level location bands internally and will share them on request during the offer conversation.

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    Step 10 — Onboarding. New hires go through a two-week onboarding that includes a crypto fundamentals track even for experienced candidates, a product immersion built around writing and publishing a real Dune dashboard in your first week, and time with each functional lead. Most new hires travel to Oslo within the first 60 days for an in-person week, regardless of their home base.

Resume Tips for Dune

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Lead with a one-sentence summary that signals crypto literacy without overclaimi

Lead with a one-sentence summary that signals crypto literacy without overclaiming. Something like 'Senior data engineer with 6 years building analytics pipelines and 3 years writing Dune queries on Ethereum and Solana' is far stronger than a generic headline. The reviewer will be scanning for proof you are not a crypto tourist.

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Quantify your impact in terms Dune cares about

Quantify your impact in terms Dune cares about. For engineers, that means query latency improvements, data volume handled, pipeline uptime, and cost-per-query reductions. For GTM, it means ARR delivered, logo count, deal sizes, and specific named crypto customers if you can disclose them. For data and research roles, it means dashboards published, followers earned, and specific research questions you answered.

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Link to public artifacts

Link to public artifacts. A Dune profile with published dashboards, a GitHub with indexer or smart contract code, a Substack or Mirror with on-chain research, or a Kaggle with data work all carry more weight than a private portfolio. Put the links in the header, not buried in the experience section.

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Use the exact job title from the Ashby posting in your summary or most recent ro

Use the exact job title from the Ashby posting in your summary or most recent role title line where truthful. Ashby parses both the structured resume fields and the free text, and matching keywords like 'Platform Engineer', 'Account Executive', or 'Customer Solutions Specialist' helps your record surface when a recruiter runs a targeted search across the pipeline.

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Show tool fluency that maps to the stack

Show tool fluency that maps to the stack. TypeScript, Python, Rust, Trino, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS are all relevant on the engineering side. For data and research roles, call out SQL dialects you are strong in, particularly Trino and Postgres flavors. For GTM, name the CRM and sales tooling you have used (HubSpot, Salesforce, Gong, Outreach) and any crypto-specific tools like Etherscan, Nansen, Token Terminal, or Messari.

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Demonstrate Nordic-friendly written communication

Demonstrate Nordic-friendly written communication. Dune's writing culture is direct, humble, and concise, with a strong preference for memos over meetings. A resume full of buzzwords, motivational adjectives, or passive voice reads as noisy. Short sentences, concrete verbs, and specific numbers will stand out.

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Address the timezone question explicitly if you are applying from outside Europe

Address the timezone question explicitly if you are applying from outside Europe or the US East Coast. A simple line such as 'Based in Denver, Colorado. Comfortable with a 7am to 3pm local workday to maintain overlap with Oslo' removes a silent objection before it can disqualify you.

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Keep it to one page for under 10 years of experience and two pages for more

Keep it to one page for under 10 years of experience and two pages for more. Use a simple, single-column, ATS-friendly layout without tables, multi-column grids, text boxes, or header and footer content. Ashby parses cleanly from properly structured PDFs, but exotic templates still lose structure in Boolean searches.

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Save and submit as a PDF named {FirstName}_{LastName}_Dune_{Role}

Save and submit as a PDF named {FirstName}_{LastName}_Dune_{Role}.pdf. Ashby stores the filename, and a clean filename is a quiet signal of professional care.

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Proofread for crypto jargon hygiene

Proofread for crypto jargon hygiene. Dune's audience uses terms like 'onchain', 'EVM', 'rollup', 'L2', 'TVL', 'DEX', 'MEV', and 'restaking' correctly. Misusing a term is worse than not using it at all. If you are new to the space, write plainly about what you have done and express genuine curiosity rather than performing expertise.

ATS System: Ashby

Dune uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, hosted at jobs.ashbyhq.com/dune. Ashby is a modern, all-in-one recruiting platform favored by Series A through C startups, particularly in crypto, AI, and developer tools. It combines ATS, CRM, and analytics in one system. Ashby parses resumes into structured fields (work history, education, skills) and also preserves the raw text for keyword search. Recruiters can filter the pipeline by role, stage, source, location, tags, and custom fields, and the system supports structured scorecards and calibrated panel feedback. For candidates, Ashby presents a clean single-page application form with file upload, a few short-answer questions, and demographic fields that are always optional. Confirmation emails come from [email protected], and all interview scheduling, messaging, and offer delivery happens inside the Ashby candidate portal that you can access with the magic link in the confirmation email.

  • Apply directly through jobs.ashbyhq.com/dune rather than through aggregators. Third-party mirrors sometimes strip required fields or lag behind when roles are closed. The canonical URL is dune.com/careers which redirects to Ashby.
  • Upload a PDF, not a DOCX, Pages, or image. Ashby's resume parser handles PDF most reliably. Text must be selectable, not an image, or structured fields will be blank and the recruiter will see an empty profile.
  • Fill every field the form exposes, even optional ones like LinkedIn and portfolio URL. Ashby surfaces these in the pipeline view, and a complete profile simply gets more attention than a sparse one.
  • Write short, specific answers to the application questions. Ashby renders them inline on the recruiter's screen. Long, generic essays get skimmed; three tight paragraphs that answer the actual question get read.
  • Use the referral field if you have a connection at Dune. Ashby tags referred candidates and routes them to a separate review queue that typically moves faster than the cold inbound pipeline.
  • Check your candidate portal rather than waiting on email. Status updates, interview scheduling links, and feedback requests all appear there, and corporate email filters sometimes divert Ashby notifications.
  • If you need to update your resume after submitting, use the candidate portal's 'update application' feature rather than reapplying. Duplicate applications get merged by Ashby and can briefly appear as a withdrawal, which is easy to avoid.
  • Expect self-scheduling links. Ashby integrates with Google Calendar and Cal.com, and Dune's recruiters will usually send you a link to pick your own interview slots across interviewer calendars.

Interview Culture

Dune's interview culture is calm, rigorous, and mission-heavy.

The conversations are unhurried, the interviewers are thoughtful rather than performative, and the bar is set by craft depth and judgment rather than by credentialism or leetcode trivia. Expect long pauses, follow-up questions that probe your reasoning, and an overall tone that is closer to a Nordic academic seminar than to a Silicon Valley whiteboard session. Interviewers often share screens on real Dune queries during technical rounds, and candidates are invited to think aloud, ask clarifying questions, and push back on assumptions. Crypto fluency is tested but in a humane way. You will not be grilled on the history of EIPs or quizzed on obscure L2 specifications. You will, however, be asked to explain what you believe about on-chain data, why transparency matters, and how you would reason about a specific analytical question such as 'how would you measure real versus wash trading volume on a given DEX?' or 'how would you identify whether a token launch is organic or sybil-driven?' Honest answers grounded in first-principles thinking score higher than canned industry talking points. Technical rounds for engineers tend to focus on data-heavy systems. Expect SQL problems that escalate from straightforward joins and window functions to optimization questions involving partition pruning, columnar scan costs, and the economics of querying petabyte-scale data. Systems-design interviews favor realistic blockchain-shaped problems over generic 'design Twitter' prompts. If you are interviewing for a Platform Engineer role, prepare to discuss indexer architectures, reorg handling, backfill strategies, and the tradeoffs between Trino, ClickHouse, and custom Rust pipelines. GTM interviews are thoughtful and commercially honest. Dune's go-to-market motion centers on protocol teams, exchanges, and research firms, and interviewers care about whether you can navigate long technical sales cycles where the buyer is often an engineer, not a CFO. Expect to present a written territory plan or deal strategy, handle a live roleplay where the 'customer' is a skeptical protocol lead, and discuss how you would build a durable pipeline in a market that swings with crypto cycles. Cross-functional rounds probe collaboration and humility. Dune is a small company with strong culture around written communication, asynchronous decision-making, and low-ego debate. Interviewers will notice if you talk over them, take credit for team work, or dismiss other functions. They will equally notice if you listen carefully, name the people you worked with by role, and admit what you do not know. The founder round, if it comes, is intimate and demanding. Fredrik and Mats are both product-minded founders who care about craft and mission. Expect questions about what you would build, what you think Dune is getting wrong, and what you believe about the future of on-chain data. Vague, agreeable answers do not do well here. Specific, opinionated, well-reasoned answers, even ones the founders disagree with, tend to advance. Feedback cycles are fast inside Dune's process. Candidates usually hear back within 3 to 5 business days of each round. When the answer is no, the recruiter will typically offer a short, honest reason and will leave the door open for future roles. When the answer is yes, offers are walked through in detail, including the equity math, the vesting structure, and the tax treatment for international hires.

What Dune Looks For

  • Genuine conviction about on-chain data and crypto as a long-term technology wave, not as a speculative asset class. Candidates who can articulate why public, verifiable data matters tend to do well.
  • Craft depth in a specific discipline. Dune hires for mastery, not for breadth. Engineers are expected to have strong opinions on data systems, product people are expected to have a tested philosophy of product, GTM people are expected to have a proven deal motion.
  • SQL fluency across every role, including non-technical ones. Even GTM and operations hires are expected to be able to write and read Dune queries after onboarding, and SQL comfort is a quiet but consistent screen.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and small-team operating. Dune is under 100 people and operates with thin process, shared calendars, and a heavy reliance on asynchronous writing. Candidates who need large support structures, formal career ladders, or rigid role boundaries tend to struggle.
  • Written communication strength. Memos, design docs, deal notes, and research writeups are the primary artifacts of work at Dune. A candidate's writing sample, application answers, and take-home document are weighted heavily.
  • Humility and collaborative instinct. Dune's culture is low-ego and consensus-oriented in the Nordic sense. Assertive candidates are welcome. Loud, self-promotional, or dismissive candidates are not.
  • Timezone compatibility with Europe plus US East Coast. Roles are structured around that overlap window, and candidates in other timezones need a credible plan for maintaining meaningful synchronous time.
  • Full-stack curiosity. Even specialists are expected to care about the whole product. A backend engineer who has never looked at the query editor UI or a salesperson who has never forked a dashboard will be gently pushed during interviews.
  • Trustworthy handling of sensitive data and reputation. Crypto is a regulated, scrutinized industry. Candidates with a history of sloppy public communication, questionable trading behavior, or association with fraudulent projects will not pass the final rounds.
  • A learning mindset about blockchain ecosystems. No one knows every chain equally. What matters is that you can pick up a new chain's data model quickly, read its documentation honestly, and ask sharp questions about its design.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Dune Analytics remote-friendly?
Yes, with constraints. Dune operates as a distributed team anchored in Oslo and New York, with remote employees concentrated across Europe and the US East Coast. The company explicitly optimizes for timezone overlap between those two regions, which typically means a working window of roughly 3pm to 8pm Central European Time, or 9am to 2pm Eastern Time. Candidates in US Pacific, Asia-Pacific, or Middle Eastern timezones can occasionally be hired, particularly for the APAC Sales Executive role based in Singapore, but are expected to maintain meaningful daily overlap and to travel to Oslo within their first 60 days.
Do I need to be a crypto expert to get hired at Dune?
No, but you need genuine curiosity and first-principles conviction. Dune does not expect candidates to have traded memecoins or to have memorized Ethereum Improvement Proposals. It does expect that you can explain, in your own words, why public on-chain data matters, that you have spent real time with the product or with comparable tools like Etherscan, Nansen, or Token Terminal, and that you can reason about a simple analytical question involving blockchain data. Career switchers from data engineering, fintech, and quantitative research are common at Dune.
What is Dune's compensation structure?
Dune offers a base salary plus equity package, with the equity portion structured as ISOs or NSOs depending on jurisdiction and employment type. Compensation bands are set by role level and location, with New York and Oslo typically on the higher end of the bands. Dune does not publish bands externally, but recruiters will share them during the offer conversation and will walk you through the exercise economics, the vesting schedule (typically 4 years with a 1-year cliff), and the tax treatment for your specific country of residence. Benefits include health coverage, generous paid time off by Nordic standards, a home office stipend, and at least one company offsite per year in Oslo.
How long does Dune's hiring process take?
Most candidates move from first recruiter screen to offer in 4 to 6 weeks, though timelines can extend during Oslo's summer holiday season in July and August and during the year-end period from mid-December through early January. Technical roles with take-home assessments tend to run on the longer end. If you have not heard back within 15 business days of an interview, a polite nudge in the Ashby candidate portal is appropriate and will not be held against you.
What technical stack should I prepare for as an engineer?
Dune's core stack includes TypeScript and Next.js on the frontend, Python and Rust for blockchain indexing and data pipelines, Trino and Databricks for the analytics warehouse, Postgres for transactional data, and AWS as the cloud platform. Supporting tools include Kafka, Airflow or dbt for orchestration depending on the team, Kubernetes for container orchestration, and a mix of monitoring tooling. Not every engineer needs to know every piece, but having strong opinions in at least one layer (data pipelines, query engines, or the web application) and basic literacy in the others is expected.
How does Dune handle the crypto market cycle?
Dune is explicit about being built for the long arc of crypto rather than for any single cycle. The 2022 to 2024 crypto winter slowed Dune's hiring, sharpened its focus on paying customers among protocols and research firms, and accelerated investments in reliability, cost efficiency, and the app ecosystem. Candidates should expect interviewers to discuss market cycles honestly and to look for signals that you can operate through both bull and bear phases without losing conviction or changing your core work habits.
What are the Dune Wizards and do they matter for hiring?
Wizards are Dune's top community analysts, recognized publicly on the platform for the dashboards and queries they publish. The Wizard community is a meaningful recruiting pipeline for analyst, data, and product roles, and Dune has historically hired directly from the top ranks. You do not need Wizard status to get hired, but publishing even one or two thoughtful public dashboards before applying is a low-cost, high-signal way to strengthen your candidacy for any analytics-adjacent role.
Does Dune sponsor visas?
Dune sponsors work permits in Norway for roles based in Oslo, including for non-EU candidates, and supports relocations on a case-by-case basis. In the United States, Dune has historically hired from the existing work-authorized pool rather than sponsoring H-1Bs from scratch, though transfers and green card support for current employees are handled. For remote roles, Dune engages contractors through an employer-of-record service in supported European countries and select US states. Always confirm the specifics of your situation with the recruiter during the first call.
What is DuneAI and will it come up in interviews?
DuneAI is Dune's natural-language-to-SQL assistant that lets users ask questions about on-chain data in plain English and receive executable Dune queries in return. It launched in 2024 and has become one of the most-mentioned surface areas on the roadmap. Interviewers for engineering, product, and GTM roles frequently ask how you would think about pricing, positioning, or improving DuneAI. Having a thoughtful opinion, even a critical one, is a strong signal. Having no opinion suggests you have not used the product.
How important is written English, especially for non-native speakers?
Very important, and Dune is kind about it. English is the working language across Oslo, New York, and the remote team, and most of the company's work product is written: memos, design docs, deal notes, research writeups, and asynchronous discussion threads. Non-native English speakers are welcome and well represented, but clear, direct, professional writing is non-negotiable. Your application's short-answer responses, your take-home writeup, and your email thread with the recruiter are all evaluated as writing samples.

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