Senior Data Platform Engineer - Automation & Reliability

Gemini; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Gemini is expanding its Platform team to build scalable, secure data foundations across global Datastores. The Senior Data Platform Engineer role focuses on reliability, automation, and operability of our database fleet, enabling self-service provisioning and scalable operations.

You will work with data engineering and product teams to implement IaC, observability, and SRE practices that reduce toil and improve uptime in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable data platforms.
• Strong automation and infrastructure as code background.
• Proven experience with SRE practices and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Automation and Reliability Engineering: IaC, CLI tools, and CI/CD that make database provisioning, scaling, failover, and deployment self-service.
• Database Scaling and Optimization: manage replication, failover, backups, and query performance for high throughput.
• Fleet-Wide Infrastructure: improve observability, incident response, and uptime posture across multiple datastores.

Skills

Relational DBs

PostgreSQL

Aurora

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

SRE practices

Tools

Amazon Aurora

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Gemini is expanding its Platform team to build scalable, secure data foundations across global Datastores. The Senior Data Platform Engineer role focuses on reliability, automation, and operability of our database fleet, enabling self-service provisioning and scalable operations.

You will work with data engineering and product teams to implement IaC, observability, and SRE practices that reduce toil and improve uptime in a cloud-native environment.