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.

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

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in the field
• Strong software development skills in Python or Go
• Experience building production services
• Strong experience securing AWS environments (IAM, VPC, KMS)
• Deep Terraform expertise including module development and CI/CD gates
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes security (RBAC, network policies, admission controls)
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GCP or Azure security services
• Knowledge of policy-as-code tools like Open Policy Agent or Sentinel
• Experience with container security scanning and supply chain security
• Background in incident response for cloud and container environments
• Experience with service mesh and zero-trust networking