Summary

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: Staff Cloud Network Engineer

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.

As a Staff Cloud Network 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:

1. Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure
2. Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
3. Leverage automation tools—including Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and Python scripting—to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
4. Continually drive improvements in network performance to support various business services
5. Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues, find and improve performance bottlenecks
6. Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 7+ years networking experience 
2. 5+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi for resource provisioning and management
3. Strong python/golang scripting experience for automating network management tasks
4. Capable of developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining scripts to support infrastructure workflows and enhance operational efficiency
5. Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
6. Experience with network security concepts and technologies, including centralized inspection firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and access controls
7. Experience with ANF, ALBs, NLBs, Global Accelerator, AWS WAF and Shield for Ingress traffic control from the Internet
8. Experience in zero trust environments
9. Knowledge of Network Management and Analytical tools such as DataDog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, cloudwatch, etc
10. Experience with Kubernetes and service Mesh technologies, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc
11. Experience with Linux, performance, interfaces, routing, and iptables
12. Good understanding of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
13. Strong understanding of networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLAN, BGP, HSRP, VRFs, IGMP, OSPF, BGP, etc)
14. Strong collaboration skills for effective communication with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders
15. Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Robust experience in a fast-paced financial services or financial trading environment or Large-Scale Web presence company

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 $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.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Python
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration