Senior Data Platform Engineer - SRE for Scalable Data (Remote)

Gemini Trust Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive starting pay

Discretionary annual bonus

Long-term equity grant

401K with company matching

Flexible time off

Job summary

Gemini Trust Company is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to act as an SRE for our data infrastructure. You’ll build self-service automation, manage PostgreSQL/Aurora databases, and extend reliability across a fleet of datastores in a hybrid US-based setup.

You will work with data and product teams to improve observability, uptime, and efficiency, applying SRE practices to pipelines and real-time processing. This role emphasizes automation-first design and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Deep experience managing and scaling relational databases in cloud-native environments (PostgreSQL/Aurora).
• Hands-on automation, self-service tooling, and guardrails to reduce manual db operations.
• Experience with at least one non-relational data store (NoSQL, columnar, document, key-value).
• Familiarity with cloud data services (AWS RDS/Redshift/BigQuery).
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling and deploying automated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build IaC, CLI tools, and CI/CD-driven automation for provisioning, scaling, failover, and deployment across environments.
• Lead database scaling, replication, failover, backup/recovery, and query optimization for reliability and performance.
• Extend automation to non-relational datastores and build common tooling across fleet.
• Define and track SLOs, error budgets, and implement proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Collaborate with data and product teams to integrate with real-time and batch pipelines via Kafka, ETL workflows.
• Triage and resolve performance bottlenecks at query and infra levels; establish observability and incident playbooks.
• Automate repetitive operational work and contribute to platform docs and runbooks.

Skills

Relational DBs

Automation tooling

NoSQL

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Scripting (Python)

Tools

PostgreSQL

Aurora

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Gemini Trust Company is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to act as an SRE for our data infrastructure. You’ll build self-service automation, manage PostgreSQL/Aurora databases, and extend reliability across a fleet of datastores in a hybrid US-based setup.

You will work with data and product teams to improve observability, uptime, and efficiency, applying SRE practices to pipelines and real-time processing. This role emphasizes automation-first design and cross-team collaboration.