Staff Cloud Network Engineer, Platform

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.

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 Site Reliability Engineering team engages directly with our other engineering teams to onboard them onto our platform systems, reviewing and recommending design and architectural decisions, and guiding our engineering teams on how to implement the tooling provided by the larger Platform organization required to ensure systems can scale and react to changing conditions, with continuous improvement loops.

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 (data centers 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.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY office.

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 for resource provisioning and management
• Experience at writing scripts or CLI tools that help increase automation and Developer Productivity in high-level languages like Python, Go, etc
• 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)
• Strong collaboration skills for effective communication with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders
• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Robust experience in a fast-paced financial services or financial trading environment or Large-Scale Web presence company

• Competitive starting salary
• 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 $140,000 - $200,000 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.

In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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