Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

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.

Our flagship product, the Gemini Exchange, was built to be a compliant and secure platform to buy, sell, and store crypto. Our suite of retail products includes ActiveTrader, a high-performance platform for advanced traders. Gemini also offers the Gemini Credit Card providing real-time crypto rewards, the Gemini dollar (GUSD), a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, and Gemini Staking, allowing users to securely stake their tokens on-chain and receive rewards. Nifty Gateway, Gemini's NFT platform, is the world's premier marketplace for NFTs and digital art.

Gemini customers also have access to a wide range of institutional products tailor-made for high-net-worth individuals, asset and wealth managers, and hedge funds and liquidity providers seeking exposure to crypto. Customers looking to place large orders can use Gemini eOTC, a fully-electronic over-the-counter trading platform built for high-value bulk orders. For wealth management professionals, we offer a unique destination for their clients’ crypto portfolios from a single platform, and we enable fully electronic clearing and settlement of off-exchange crypto trades.

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: Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, Compute Engineering

The Compute Engineering team is a part of our larger Platform organization and maintains the physical data centers and Kubernetes-based infrastructure that powers Gemini. As an engineer on this team, you’ll work optimizing our infrastructure for High Performance computing (HPC) workloads, architecting and building out Kubernetes as multi-regional deployment for high resiliency, along with defining auxiliary services, like a cohesive service mesh architecture. With users and engineers around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns. You'll be an integral part of leading Gemini’s engineering teams towards modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a Linux(Debian) fleet of servers.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes infrastructure (AWS EKS) along with other AWS Cloud services.
• Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity.
• Optimize Linux Kernel for HPC and low-latency work loads.
• Optimize existing systems/services to improve performance and efficiency.
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
• Work cross-functionally across the Platform organization to deliver great infrastructure ergonomics for our engineers.
• As we grow globally, leverage edge computing to bring processing capabilities closer to the end user.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in the field.
• Strong product and customer centric design approach.
• Cloud technologies and providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Physical maintenance of servers.
• Containerization and Container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Service discovery and service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd.
• Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code solutions like Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, etc.
• Proficient in scripting and/or Python, or Golang.
• Linux kernel tuning and Network host debugging skills.
• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

• Competitive base salary
• Benefits
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Discretionary equity

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.