Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Our flagship product, the Gemini Exchange, was built to be a compliant and secure platform to buy, sell, and store crypto. Our suite of retail products includes ActiveTrader, a high-performance platform for advanced traders. Gemini also offers the Gemini Credit Card providing real-time crypto rewards, the Gemini dollar (GUSD), a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, and Gemini Staking, allowing users to securely stake their tokens on-chain and receive rewards. Nifty Gateway, Gemini's NFT platform, is the world's premier marketplace for NFTs and digital art.

Gemini customers also have access to a wide range of institutional products tailor-made for high-net-worth individuals, asset and wealth managers, and hedge funds and liquidity providers seeking exposure to crypto. Customers looking to place large orders can use Gemini eOTC, a fully-electronic over-the-counter trading platform built for high-value bulk orders. For wealth management professionals, we offer a unique destination for their clients’ crypto portfolios from a single platform, and we enable fully electronic clearing and settlement of off-exchange crypto trades.

The Department: Platform

Our Platform organization’s purpose is to enable Gemini to scale effectively and empower our engineering teams to focus on building innovative financial products and experiences for individuals around the world.

The Role: Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, Storage & Databases

The Storage Engineering team is a part of our larger Platform organization and develops and maintains the storage and data services that powers Gemini. As an engineer on this team, you’ll work on building out our database and storage strategy to support our microservice transformation and a globally growing business. In this highly cross-functional role you will partner, collaborate and align with product and platform engineering teams. With users and engineers around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns.

This is a newly formed team and the scope and impact is rapidly evolving, which provides the opportunity to grow in innovative ways.

Responsibilities:

• Build the platform that provides self-serve provisioning, scaling, and management of database systems like Postgres, AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, and ElasticSearch.
• Work with product engineering teams to evaluate business needs and priorities, liaise with key business partners and address team needs related to data systems and management.
• Leverage cloud platforms and solutions to solve complex problems for Gemini’s storage needs.
• Partner with Compliance and Security teams in defining data lifecycle management requirements and design solutions.
• Author detailed documentation, highlighting requirements, designs and architecture decision records.
• Review and ensure architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost effective.
• Research and evaluate use of new provider solutions against multiple environments and providing contextual recommendations.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in the field.
• Deep experience in data and storage technologies like RDMS (Postgres), NoSQL, File systems, Block storage, Object storage.
• Experience building, maintaining, and operating a dynamic storage infrastructure that is programmatically accessed by self-service processes.
• Experience in building data solutions for globally distributed systems.
• Track record of strong technical architecture, product vision, project execution and production operations.
• Platform development and operational experience in public cloud infrastructures.
• Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code solutions like Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Proficient in scripting and/or Python, or Golang.
• Solid organizational skills and attention to detail. 
• Clear, proactive communication with good written and verbal skills.

• Competitive base salary
• Benefits
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Discretionary equity

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.