# Senior Platform Security Engineer

**Company**: Gemini
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $200,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

The Platform Security team secures Gemini's infrastructure through service hardening and by developing and supporting a suite of foundational tools. As a Senior Platform Security Engineer, you will build and maintain security controls across diverse environments,from hardening cloud and container orchestration systems to enhancing our non-cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Build and maintain security controls for AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) environments, including guardrails, container security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) security

- Support IAM initiatives by helping to design and maintain access controls, role-based access control (RBAC) models, and identity governance workflows

- Design, deploy, and maintain internal security services and platforms that other engineering teams rely on

- Act as a security partner to engineering teams, helping them make secure architecture decisions without blocking innovation

- Work across functions,partnering with AppSec, Threat Detection, and GRC,to identify and reduce risk across the entire stack

- Participate in on-call rotation for platform security incidents

Minimum Qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in Information Security, SRE, or Systems Engineering

- Strong software development skills in Python or Go with experience building production services

- Solid experience with AWS (or similar cloud providers), including familiarity with IAM roles, VPCs, and native security controls

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/EKS and containerization concepts, including pod security policies and container lifecycle

- Understanding of IAM principles, RBAC, and least-privilege access models

- Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code

- Ability to self-scope and execute technical goals with minimal supervision

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with identity providers (IdP) like Okta and standards like SAML/OIDC

- Experience writing Policy-as-Code (e.g., Open Policy Agent/Rego)

- Background in Linux systems engineering or network security

- Experience building and operating high-availability critical systems

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Go
- Terraform
- IAM
- RBAC
- Linux
- network security

### Nice to have
- Okta
- SAML/OIDC
- Open Policy Agent/Rego
- Linux systems engineering

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