Senior Data Platform Engineer

1 week, 1 day ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Gemini

Gemini

Gemini is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, providing a secure platform for buying, selling, and storing digital assets like Bitcoin and Ether. Founded in 2014, it aims to revolutionize the future of money.

Capital Markets
251-1K
Founded 2014
$400M raised

Description

  • Build Infrastructure as Code, CLI tools, and CI/CD automation for self-service database provisioning, scaling, failover, and deployment.
  • Own the reliability, availability, and operability of relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora.
  • Extend operational standards and tooling across non-relational datastores including document, key-value, columnar, and streaming systems.
  • Define and track SLOs and error budgets, and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response for data infrastructure.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot production incidents across multiple database technologies.
  • Collaborate with data and product engineering teams to integrate databases with real-time and batch pipelines.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at both the query and infrastructure levels.
  • Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive tasks and improving platform playbooks, documentation, and retrospectives.
  • Support high-availability design and recovery practices, including replication, failover, and backup/recovery workflows.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in the field.
  • Deep experience managing and scaling relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, or similar.
  • Experience with replication, failover, backup/recovery, and query or engine performance tuning.
  • Demonstrated SRE mindset with automation and self-service tooling that replaces manual database operations.
  • Hands-on production experience with at least one non-relational datastore such as NoSQL, columnar, document, or key-value systems.
  • Familiarity with cloud data platforms and services such as AWS RDS, Redshift, EMR, Google BigQuery, or Databricks.
  • Experience working in an infrastructure-as-code environment, especially Terraform.
  • Ability to write scripts, CLIs, or services in Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Understanding of CI/CD, observability tooling, SLOs/error budgets, and incident response.
  • Experience integrating with data pipelines and messaging systems such as Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Comfort participating in on-call rotations and owning uptime and recovery across multiple database technologies.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across infrastructure, data, and product teams.

Benefits

  • Competitive starting pay.
  • Discretionary annual bonus.
  • New hire equity grant as long-term incentive.
  • Comprehensive health plans.
  • 401(k) with company matching.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Hybrid work approach in hub offices, with remote work available for eligible employees.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer (Freelance)

Mindrift.ai: Be the “I” in AI Internet Software & Services

Mindrift is hiring a freelance, part-time Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer for the Tendem project to build and maintain specialized web data extraction workflows for real-world applications.

AJAX AWS Docker GitHub JavaScript JSON Python Selenium
7 hours, 43 minutes ago

Senior Data Engineer

phData 251-1K IT Services

phData is hiring a Data Engineer in India to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud data solutions for enterprise clients as part of its remote-first consulting team.

Apache Airflow Apache Spark AWS Azure Cassandra Databricks dbt Elasticsearch GCP Hadoop HDFS Kafka Luigi Python Scala Snowflake Solr SQL
1 day, 6 hours ago

Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform

Figma 1K-5K Internet Software & Services

Figma is hiring a Data Platform engineering leader to scale the systems that power core business metrics, product analytics, and applied AI and experimentation across the company.

Machine Learning
1 day, 6 hours ago

Lead Bioinformatician/Engineer (Pipelines and Infrastructure)

Natera 1K-5K Pharmaceuticals

Natera is hiring a Lead Bioinformatics Engineer to own pipeline and infrastructure engineering for a research informatics team developing cfDNA screening workflows in women’s and organ health.

AWS Git Linux Python Terraform
1 day, 6 hours ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers