Gemini

Staff Platform Security Engineer

Gemini
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$168k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain security services, tools, and automation using Python or Go
  • Design and implement security controls for AWS and Kubernetes environments using infrastructure-as-code
  • Create reusable libraries, frameworks, and platforms that enable secure-by-default patterns
  • Develop automated security monitoring, scanning, and remediation services
  • Build CI/CD security gates and policy-as-code validation tools
  • Partner with engineering teams on architecture decisions and provide security consultation
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for critical security incidents and infrastructure issues

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in the field
  • Strong Python or Go software development skills and experience building production services
  • Strong experience securing AWS environments, including IAM, VPC, KMS, and native security services
  • Deep Terraform expertise covering module development, CI/CD gates, policy testing, remote state management, and zero-downtime deployments
  • Proven Kubernetes security expertise, including admission controls, RBAC, network policies, and runtime protection
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and SRE principles
  • Demonstrated ability to build, deploy, and maintain production security tools and services
  • Preferred experience with GCP security services and multi-cloud environments including Azure
  • Preferred knowledge of policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent and Sentinel
  • Preferred experience with container security scanning, image signing, supply chain security, cloud and container incident response, service mesh technologies, and zero-trust networking
  • Contributions to open source security tools or cloud security communities are preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive starting pay, discretionary annual bonus, and new hire equity grant
  • Comprehensive health plans, 401K with company matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off
  • Hybrid work approach with in-person attendance twice weekly at the New York City office; remote workforce options may apply based on location
Gemini

About Gemini

501-1,000 employees

Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini (NASDAQ: GEMI) envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging cryptoeconomy, we are providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure.