Summary

The Department: Platform

Gemini’s 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. We are building our Platform across the cloud with a focus on fleetwide scalability, resiliency, and efficiency.

The Role: Director, Platform Engineering

As the Director of Platform Engineering, you will be leading the lowest layer of our Platform organization. Your team will be delivering and operating the foundational cloud environment. This foundational infrastructure layer powers Gemini’s growing services and comprises our compute platform, data services, service mesh, cloud provisioning, and networking stack.

Responsibilities:

1. Manage and grow a world-class team focused on providing a highly reliable infrastructure foundation to Gemini and the broader Platform organization.
2. Partner cross functionally with other technology, IT, and Security teams on defining and executing the vision for how to deliver secure infrastructure at Gemini.
3. Build and enhance our Kubernetes-based compute platform.
4. Develop a data architecture and database strategy to allow engineers to interact with data seamlessly while conforming to our highest security standards and ensuring compliance with our policies and standards.

Qualifications:

1. Minimum of 10 years of experience of leading Platform engineering teams.
2. Deep experience in the development and operations of a Kubernetes-based, geo-scale, distributed services platform.
3. Proficient in working with Relational, NoSQL, and In-memory databases like Postgres, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticache.
4. Experience with building software/frameworks for infrastructure automation and orchestration, like Terraform, Ansible, Salt, etc.
5. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
6. Experience with Agile & DevOps methodologies, tools, and measurement practices.
7. Deep understanding of modern software development practices, like CI/CD, service instrumentation, and multi-site software deployment and operation.
8. Solid organizational skills, attention to detail, exceptional communication skills, and proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing timelines.
9. Proven track record of building world-class, geo-distributed engineering teams.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

1. Competitive starting salary
2. A discretionary annual bonus
3. Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
4. Comprehensive health plans
5. 401K with company matching
6. Paid Parental Leave
7. Flexible time off

Salary Range:

The base salary range for this role is between $269,000 - $336,000 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.

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Development
• Leadership
• Operations
• SQL