Gemini
Staff Platform Security Engineer
$168K–$240K
New York, New York +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 11, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
Miami, Florida
Remote (USA)
Gemini North America - Experience
- 8+ years of experience in the field.
About the job
Builds and operates platform security services, tools, and automation to secure Gemini’s cloud and container infrastructure and enable secure-by-default engineering.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain security services, tools, and automation using Python or Go.
- Implement security controls and infrastructure-as-code guardrails for AWS and Kubernetes, including CI/CD security gates and policy validation.
- Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture and participate in on-call for critical security incidents and infrastructure issues.
What they ask for
- Strong software development skills in Python or Go, including production services.
- Strong AWS security experience, including IAM, VPC, KMS, and native security services.
- Deep Terraform expertise, including module development, CI/CD gates, policy testing, remote state management, and zero-downtime deployments.
- Proven Kubernetes security expertise and experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and SRE principles.
Nice to have
- Experience with GCP security and multi-cloud environments, including Azure.
- Knowledge of policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent or Sentinel; container security, incident response, service mesh, or open-source security experience.
Pay
$168,000 - $240,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Azure, Open Policy Agent
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