Gemini · 2 months ago
Staff Data Platform Engineer
New York, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$168K/yr - $240K/yrGemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded in 2014, offering a wide range of crypto products and services. The Staff Data Platform Engineer will lead the building, scaling, and maintaining of data infrastructure, focusing on architecture, reliability, and performance, while collaborating closely with data and product engineering teams.
CryptocurrencyFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechWeb3
Responsibilities
Database Scaling and Optimization: Design and implement scaling strategies for relational systems to ensure they meet the high availability and scalability needs of data and product engineering teams
Availability and Uptime Management: Proactively monitor and optimize database systems to meet stringent uptime requirements. Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and restore service promptly during disruptions
Architect and Optimize Database Infrastructure: Manage a variety of database technologies, balancing tradeoffs across relational, columnar, document, key-value, and unstructured data solutions, providing a foundation for data warehousing and supporting data-driven product needs
Integration with Data Engineering and Product Pipelines: Collaborate with data and product engineering teams to implement and optimize data pipelines, including message queues (e.g., Kafka), ETL workflows, and real-time processing, ensuring efficient and reliable data movement
Infrastructure Automation and Reliability: Utilize infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate deployment, scaling, and maintenance, creating a consistent, reliable environment that supports high availability and deployment efficiency for both data and product teams
Performance Tuning and Incident Response: Conduct performance tuning, establish monitoring and alerting, and address potential issues quickly to ensure a responsive platform that meets the needs of all engineering workloads
Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document processes, including scaling strategies, monitoring setups, and best practices, to support alignment with engineering requirements and ensure smooth handoffs in on-call situations
Qualification
Required
Deep expertise in data and storage technologies, including RDBMS (e.g., Postgres), NoSQL, and other database types (e.g., columnar, document, key-value, and unstructured), Object Storage (S3), with a strong understanding of tradeoffs and use cases for each
Demonstrated experience with advanced database scaling strategies for relational systems
Strong knowledge of high-availability architectures and proficiency with monitoring tools to support uptime and incident response
Experience with cloud-based database and data processing platforms, such as Amazon Aurora, Databricks, AWS RDS, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, and managed services like AWS EMR and Google Cloud Dataflow
Hands-on experience with modern data transport and streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, and Pulsar, including building and operating real-time data pipelines
Familiarity with traditional ETL workflows, scheduled batch pipelines, and message queuing systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, SQS), and how they integrate with streaming architectures
Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Bash, SQL) and experience with CI/CD practices
Experience in an on-call rotation and handling incident response
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with data and product engineering teams
Benefits
Competitive starting salary
A discretionary annual bonus
Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
Comprehensive health plans
401K with company matching
Paid Parental Leave
Flexible time off
Company
Gemini
Gemini is a licensed digital asset exchange and custodian built for both individuals and institutions.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$499.9MKey Investors
RippleDraper DragonMorgan Creek Digital
2025-09-12IPO
2025-07-10Debt Financing· $75M
2022-06-20Secondary Market· $1M
Leadership Team
Tyler Winklevoss
Co-Founder & CEO
Cameron Winklevoss
Co-founder & President
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