Cloud Network Engineer, Platform

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure.

As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.

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 Site Reliability Engineering team engages directly with our other engineering teams to onboard them onto our platform systems, reviewing and recommending design and architectural decisions, and guiding our engineering teams on how to implement the tooling provided by the larger Platform organization required to ensure systems can scale and react to changing conditions, with continuous improvement loops.

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 (data centers 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.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY office.

• Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure
• Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
• Leverage automation tools—including Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and Python scripting—to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
• 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

• 7+ years networking experience
• 5+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible for resource provisioning and management
• Experience at writing scripts or CLI tools that help increase automation and Developer Productivity in high-level languages like Python, Go, etc
• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
• Experience with network security concepts and technologies, including centralized inspection firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and access controls
• Experience with ANF, ALBs, NLBs, Global Accelerator, AWS WAF and Shield for Ingress traffic control from the Internet
• Experience in zero trust environments
• Knowledge of Network Management and Analytical tools such as Data Dog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, cloud watch, etc
• Experience with Kubernetes and service Mesh technologies, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc
• Experience with Linux, performance, interfaces, routing, and iptables
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