Principal Cloud Engineer, Gemini

Platform

$172-215k

Salary dependent on location + Discretionary Annual Bonus + New Hire Equity Grant

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Redis

Linux

Postgres

Linkerd

Terraform

Splunk

ELK

Sentry

Jenkins

Ansible

Azure

Prometheus

Concourse

Golang

DynamoDB

Datadog

Expert level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

Job no longer available

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceInvestingTradingBlockchain

Job no longer available

$172-215k

Salary dependent on location + Discretionary Annual Bonus + New Hire Equity Grant

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Redis

Linux

Postgres

Linkerd

Terraform

Splunk

ELK

Sentry

Jenkins

Ansible

Azure

Prometheus

Concourse

Golang

DynamoDB

Datadog

Expert level

New York

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyMarketplaceInvestingTradingBlockchain

Company mission

To unlock the next era of financial, creative and personal freedom

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ years of experience in the field
Strong product and customer centric design approach
Cloud technologies and providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure
Containerization and Container orchestration with 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

What the job involves

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 Compute Engineering team is 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
Deliver and manage the infrastructure that powers Gemini's growing services (consisting of compute, network, storage and developer productivity)
Deep experience in the development and operations of a Kubernetes-based, geo-scale, distributed services platform
Proficient in working with Relational, NoSQL, and In-memory databases like Postgres, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticache
Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools, like Terraform, Ansible, Salt, etc
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
Deep understanding of modern software development practices, like CI/CD, service instrumentation, and multi-site software deployment and operation
Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins/Concourse/AWS Code deploy/CircleCI etc
Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting systems such as Splunk/ELK, Telegraph/Prometheus, DataDog/New Relic, Sentry, and PagerDuty

Our take

Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that's known for offering excellent security as well as being available across the US, including New York - a state not often covered by crypto exchanges.

As a trading platform, Gemini is one of many, but a dedication to innovation and a commitment to working within FCA regulations are what make it stand out from the crowd. After acquiring Blockrize in 2021, the company launched a credit card for US customers that enables them to earn a small percentage of spending back in bitcoin rewards. It also launched the Gemini dollar, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin, that combines the price stability of the US dollar with the technological advantages of a cryptocurrency.

The crypto exchange market is crowded with exchange platforms, and Gemini's competitors include giants like Coinbase. However, by operating within regulations and maintaining its status as a registered digital asset service provider in Europe (with plans to expand further in the region very soon), Gemini is in a strong position to face the continued crackdown on unauthorized activity in this market and make a space for itself in the DeFi future.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

-13% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.2)

Company

Funding (1 round)

Nov 2021

$400m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $400m

Company benefits

Flexible vacation policy
Retirement plan matching
Generous parental leave
Comprehensive health plans
Training and development
Health and wellness perks
Community events

Company HQ

New York, NY

Leadership

Tyler Winklevoss

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Cameron in 2014.

Cameron Winklevoss

(Co-Founder & President)

Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Tyler in 2014.

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