Remote Principal Platform Security Engineer
at Gemini

Summary

Join Gemini as a Principal Platform Security Engineer and contribute to securing the company's infrastructure through service hardening, developing foundational tools, and providing secure-by-default infrastructure. The role requires expertise in non-cloud infrastructure, containerization, and container orchestration security, with experience in neighboring areas of infrastructure and platform security engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the field
• Significant experience with container orchestration technologies and relevant security considerations. We often use Kubernetes and EKS
• Significant experience in SRE, systems engineering, or network engineering
• Significant experience with distributed systems or cloud computing. We often use AWS
• Significant software development experience. We often use Python or Go
• Experience building and owning high-availability critical systems or cloud-based services
• Able to self-scope, define, and manage short and long term technical goals involving many teams and partners
• Deep expertise in computer security principles and practices

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain services/platforms for security and engineering teams
• Build and improve security controls and capabilities at all layers of infrastructure
• Partner with engineering teams on security architecture and implementation decisions
• Collaborate with application security, threat detection, incident response, GRC and similar security functions to identify, understand, and reduce security risk

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience securing AWS and Linux environments, both native and third-party
• Experience designing and implementing cryptographic infrastructure such as PKI, secrets management, authentication, or secure data storage/transmission
• Experience designing and implementing systems for identity and access management
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code. We often use Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off