Staff 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 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.

The Role: Staff Network Engineer

As a Network Platform 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
• Utilize automation (Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible) to improve productivity, workflow, and technology deployment
• 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:

• 5+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and integration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Strong understanding of networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLAN, BGP, HSRP, VRFs, IGMP, OSPF, BGP, etc)
• Experience with network security concepts and technologies, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and access controls
• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
• Good understanding of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
• Experience with ANF, ALBs, NLBs, Global Accelerator, AWS WAF and Shield for Ingress traffic control from the Internet
• Experience in zero trust environments
• Experience with IaC concepts and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi for provisioning and managing infrastructure resources
• Knowledge of Network Management and Analytical tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, DataDog, Grafana, flow logs, cloudwatch, etc
• Experience with Kubernetes and Service Mesh technologies, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc
• Experience with Linux, performance, interfaces, routing, and firewalls
• Understanding of all aspects of TCP/IP networking, troubleshooting, and analysis
• 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
• Multi Cloud Knowledge (eg. AWS, GCP)

It Pays to Work Here

• 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 $152,000 - $190,000 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.

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.