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 — 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
The Role: Principal, Data Engineer
As a member of our data engineering team, you'll be setting standards for data engineering solutions that have organizational impact. You'll provide Architectural solutions that are efficient, robust, extensible and are competitive within business and industry context. You'll collaborate with senior data engineers and analysts, guiding them towards their career goals at Gemini. Communicating your insights with leaders across the organization is paramount to success.
This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our New York City, NY or San Francisco, CA office.
Responsibilities:
- Focuses on technical leadership, defining patterns and operational guidelines for their vertical(s)
- Independently scopes, designs, and delivers solutions for large, complex challenges
- Provides oversight, coaching and guidance through code and design reviews
- Designs for scale and reliability with the future in mind
- Conducts critical R&D
- Successfully plans and delivers complex, long-term projects that span multiple teams or systems, including those with external dependencies
- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization
- Owns one or more large, mission-critical systems at Gemini, or multiple complex team-level projects, overseeing all aspects from design to implementation to operation
- Collaborates with coworkers across the org to document and design how systems work and interact
- Leads and coordinates large initiatives across domains, even outside their core expertise
- Designs, architects and implements best-in-class Data Warehousing and reporting solutions
- Builds real-time data and reporting solutions
- Develops new systems and tools to enable the teams to consume and understand data more intuitively
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years experience in data engineering with data warehouse technologies
- 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
- 10+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
- Experience building real-time data solutions and processes
- Advanced skills with Python and SQL are a must
- Experience and expertise in Databricks, Spark, Hadoop etc.
- Experience with one or more MPP databases (Redshift, Bigquery, Snowflake, etc)
- Experience with one or more ETL tools (Informatica, Pentaho, SSIS, Alooma, etc)
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
- Strong software engineering skills in any server side language, preferable Python
- Experienced in working collaboratively across different teams and departments
- Strong technical and business communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Kafka, HDFS, Hive, Cloud computing, machine learning, LLMs, NLP & Web development experience is a plus
- NoSQL experience a plus
- Deep knowledge of Apache Airflow
- Expert experience implementing complex, enterprise-wide data transformation and processing solutions
- Experience with Continuous integration and deployment
- Knowledge and experience of financial markets, banking or exchanges
- Web development skills with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
It Pays to Work Here
The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:
- 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
Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $192,500 - $275,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.
In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.
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.
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