Role overview
About the Company
Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all â bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.
The Department: Data
What you'll work on
- Define and drive the long-term vision for data architecture, modeling, and transformation at Gemini
- Establish standards for data reliability, observability, and quality across all pipelines and data products using languages and frameworks such as Python, SQL, Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalents
- Partner with Staff and Senior Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Analytics Engineers to unify how data is produced, stored, and consumed
- Lead large-scale design initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, ensuring maintainability, performance, and security
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and product teams to understand data requirements, define SLAs, and deliver coherent data products that others can self-serve
- Establish data quality, validation, observability, and monitoring frameworks (data auditing, alerting, anomaly detection, data lineage)
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues: root cause analysis, performance bottlenecks, data integrity, fault tolerance
- Mentor and guide more junior and mid-level data engineers: lead code reviews, design reviews, and best-practice evangelism
- Help recruit and onboard new talent, shaping the future of Geminiâs data engineering discipline
- Stay up to date on new tools, technologies, and patterns in the data and cloud space, bringing proposals and proof-of-concepts when appropriate
- Document data flows, data dictionaries, architecture patterns, and operational runbooks
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering (or similar) roles
- Strong experience in ETL/ELT pipeline design, implementation, and optimization
- Deep expertise in Python and SQL writing production-quality, maintainable, testable code
- Experience with large-scale data warehouses (e.g. Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake)
- Solid grounding in software engineering fundamentals, data structures, and systems thinking
- Hands-on experience in data modeling (dimensional modeling, normalization, schema design)
- Experience building systems with real-time or streaming data (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming), and familiarity with CDC frameworks
- Experience with orchestration / workflow frameworks (e.g. Airflow)
- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, metadata, cataloging, and data quality practices
- Strong cross-functional communication skills; ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven experience in recruiting, mentoring, leading design discussions, and influencing data-engineering best practices across teams