Senior Data Platform Engineer

3 weeks 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.

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