Gemini · 7 hours ago
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expGemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform that provides a wide range of secure crypto products and services. The Senior Manager of Data Engineering will lead and scale a team of data engineers, overseeing data infrastructure, pipelines, and platforms to ensure data is reliable and meets the company’s strategic goals.
CryptocurrencyFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechWeb3
Responsibilities
Own the team roadmap: prioritize, plan, and deliver initiatives that span multiple data domains (ingest, transformation, serving, observability)
Supervise and mentor direct reports (senior, staff, & principal data engineers), and indirectly, other engineers
Guide, review, and approve major architectural decisions, ensure alignment with cross-team standards and long-term scalability
Drive cross-functional coordination: interface with product, analytics, ML, operations, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure data initiatives deliver value
Manage capacity, resource planning, recruiting, and career development for the data engineering team
Set and monitor key metrics (e.g. pipeline reliability, latency, throughput, data quality SLAs)
Lead incident retrospectives, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in data operations
Define and evolve the data engineering vision and architecture (batch, streaming, real-time, data modeling, metadata, lineage)
Decide technology direction: evaluate new tools, frameworks, and tradeoffs (e.g. selecting streaming engine, orchestration tool, catalog)
Enforce best practices around data quality, observability, lineage, governance, security, and compliance
Drive adoption of shared infrastructure, reusable patterns, and data platform components to reduce duplicate efforts
Ensure robustness, resilience, and monitoring of critical data systems, with appropriate alerting, failing gracefully, rollback procedures
Lead or guide on-call / support rotations and escalation protocols for production data systems
Oversee data validation, anomaly detection, schema changes, backward compatibility, and release procedures
Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements (e.g. PII, encryption, audit logging, access controls)
Present data engineering strategy, progress, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to executives and non-technical stakeholders
Translate business / product requirements into data requirements, schemas, SLAs, and deliverables
Act as the liaison for data engineering across teams, ensuring alignment, avoiding duplication, and managing dependencies
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, infrastructure, or related roles
3+ years of people management or leadership experience
Deep technical expertise in building large-scale data systems, including ingestion, transformation, and serving layers
Hands-on experience with data engineering tools and frameworks
Broad experience with data modeling (dimensional, canonical, normalization), schema evolution, and query performance optimization
Experience designing or evolving data platforms, shared infrastructure, or internal tooling
Strong understanding of software engineering best practices (modularity, testability, code reviews, CI/CD)
Demonstrated track record of architecting for reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability
Experience with metadata management, data governance, lineage, data catalogs
Solid cross-functional communication skills, ability to influence at senior levels
Proven ability to hire, grow, and retain engineering talent
Preferred
Experience with crypto, financial services, trading, markets, or exchange systems
Experience with blockchain, crypto, Web3 data — e.g. blocks, transactions, contract calls, token transfers, UTXO/account models, on-chain indexing, chain APIs, etc
Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience managing and optimizing Databricks on AWS
Experience in financial services, markets, trading or fintech, or with regulated data environments
Experience managing hybrid, distributed or remote teams
Benefits
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.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Recent News
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