Principal Software Engineer, Gemini

• 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering and infrastructure roles
• Expertise designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems
• Demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams and initiatives
• Strong hands-on software development experience in modern languages
• Deep experience with Linux, networking, containers, and cloud infrastructure. We often use Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable

• As the founding engineer and tech lead for the new Security Services team, you will help shape and deliver core infrastructure to power Gemini’s security capabilities
• In this Principal-level role, you will set the technical direction for building, owning, and operating security-critical software, platforms, tooling, frameworks, and libraries
• Leveraging your deep backend engineering expertise, you will provide hands-on engineering and leadership as the team scales up
• You will collaborate with other security and engineering teams to understand needs, architect solutions, develop robust systems, and support existing tools inherited by the new team
• With a security-first mindset, you will establish secure software development patterns and DevSecOps culture
• As the tech lead, you will have wide latitude to craft our security infrastructure while mentoring and growing a world-class engineering team
• Your mission is engineering mastery through operational excellence to support security
• Architect, build, and support security platforms and tools leveraging robust software and systems engineering
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and develop new capabilities
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise as the founding member of a new engineering team
• Maintain and extend existing security platforms
• Hire and mentor strong backend engineers to build out the team