Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Empower the Individual Through Crypto

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler 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 want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Crypto is not just a technology, it's a movement.

At Gemini, our mission is to empower the individual and that includes giving our employees flexibility of choice — our Office Optional Policy allows employees to choose to work from one of our physical locations or from home.

The Department: Crypto Core 

The Role: Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The infrastructure team at Gemini creates and manages tools and platforms, automates the creation and support of this infrastructure, and helps integrate complex processes, and supports secure data access.

Security of customers’ digital assets and personal information held with Gemini is our first and foremost priority. The infrastructure team builds and operates environments for the purpose of digital asset access. There are three main pillars of work including building and running network nodes, building and running validators, and supporting our next generation wallet infrastructure. While this role will support all three focus areas, a particular focus will be on this next generation wallet infrastructure.

In our work, we use and implement tools and software to support our cloud-based infrastructure. Given the need to build and integrate more of our software in the cloud, the ideal engineer will have extensive experience in automating and building out cloud-based software (e.g., AWS or GCP), preferably with experience in using security mechanisms (e.g., Google KMS or AWS Nitro). This engineer will also work closely with various teams including various teams such as Product Security, Protocols, On-chain, and Custody. 

We are a dynamic group with both entrepreneurial spirit and security engineering experience. We have incredibly high aspirations, and we are looking for like-minded individuals who want to guide the transition to a new more decentralized world where access to digital assets is normalized and ubiquitous.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy infrastructure in our three areas of focus 1) building and running network nodes, 2) building and running validators, and 3) building and running our next generation wallet infrastructure
• Develop tools and automation that integrate these systems in a secure way
• With a focus on our next generation wallet infrastructure, improve the capabilities of the existing infrastructure with a mindset towards infrastructure as code
• Improve availability and reliability while maintaining acceptable security 
• Integrate the use of cloud-based security mechanisms into the build infrastructure. Example security mechanisms include identity and access management and key management
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios to validate operability of physical and digital material

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years implementing cloud software while building “infrastructure as code”
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, or others)
• Hands-on expertise with one or more of the following including ansible, puppet, docker, KMS, IAM, jenkins
• Experience implementing software automation processes applied in a cloud environment
• Proficiency in a common scripting language including but not limited to Python, Ruby, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and debug issues, and demonstrate a methodical approach to root cause analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in one of the three focus areas of blockchain node operations, validators as a service, and wallet infrastructure
• 2+ years implementing software with security primitives
• 2+ years implementing software in AWS
• 1+ years using monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling 
• Strong understanding of systems/network security, secure protocol design, secure build and supply chain management, encryption, authentication, key management and applied cryptography
• Experience in a code-first environment, developing automated solutions to solve support