Staff Platform Security Engineer

## 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.

## 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 on-call rotation for critical security incidents and infrastructure issues

## Minimum Qualifications - 8+ years of experience in the field - Strong software development skills in Python or Go with experience building production services - Strong experience securing AWS environments including IAM, VPC, KMS, and native security services - Deep Terraform expertise including module development, CI/CD gates, policy testing, remote state management, and zero-downtime deployments - Proven expertise with Kubernetes security 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 security tools and services in production ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience with GCP security services and multi-cloud environments including Azure - Knowledge of policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent, Sentinel, or similar - Experience with container security scanning, image signing, and supply chain security - Background in incident response for cloud and container environments - Experience with service mesh technologies and zero-trust networking - Contributions to open source security tools or cloud security communities

## It Pays to Work Here - Competitive starting pay - 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 $168,000 - $240,000 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.

Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange and platform that enables users to buy, sell, and trade over 70 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Solana. It serves as a trusted bridge between traditional finance and the cryptoeconomy, providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future.