Staff Cloud Network Engineer, Platform

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Platform

Our Platform organization’s purpose is to enable Gemini to scale effectively and empower our engineering teams to focus on building innovative financial products and experiences for individuals around the world. Platform focuses around building a scalable and secure foundations platform, enabling Engineering to deploy, validate, and operate their services in production, improve resiliency of the service and increase organizational efficiency by reducing operational toil and increase system efficiency through architectural evolution.

The Role: Staff Cloud Network Engineer

The Platform Team is responsible for partnering with Gemini’s other engineering teams to ensure all our systems are architected, engineered and deployed to be resilient, reliable, and performant.

As a Staff Cloud Network Engineer, you will be focused on developing, and maintaining Gemini’s Network Infrastructure which includes cloud services and on-premise facilities (datacenters and offices). You will be working closely with peers on the Platform, Security, and Development teams, as well as business stakeholders to build a highly scalable and resilient network infrastructure for always on availability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure
• Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
• Leverage automation tools—including Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and Python scripting—to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
• Continually drive improvements in network performance to support various business services
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues, find and improve performance bottlenecks
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years networking experience 
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi for resource provisioning and management
• Strong python/golang scripting experience for automating network management tasks
• Capable of developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining scripts to support infrastructure workflows and enhance operational efficiency
• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
• Experience with network security concepts and technologies, including centralized inspection firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and access controls
• Experience with ANF, ALBs, NLBs, Global Accelerator, AWS WAF and Shield for Ingress traffic control from the Internet
• Experience in zero trust environments
• Knowledge of Network Management and Analytical tools such as DataDog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, cloudwatch, etc
• Experience with Kubernetes and service Mesh technologies, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc
• Experience with Linux, performance, interfaces, routing, and iptables
• Good understanding of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLAN, BGP, HSRP, VRFs, IGMP, OSPF, BGP, etc)<