Site Reliability Engineer

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Our flagship product, the Gemini Exchange, was built to be a compliant and secure platform to buy, sell, and store crypto. Our suite of retail products includes ActiveTrader, a high-performance platform for advanced traders. Gemini also offers the Gemini Credit Card providing real-time crypto rewards, the Gemini dollar (GUSD), a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, and Gemini Staking, allowing users to securely stake their tokens on-chain and receive rewards. Nifty Gateway, Gemini's NFT platform, is the world's premier marketplace for NFTs and digital art.

Gemini customers also have access to a wide range of institutional products tailor-made for high-net-worth individuals, asset and wealth managers, and hedge funds and liquidity providers seeking exposure to crypto. Customers looking to place large orders can use Gemini eOTC, a fully-electronic over-the-counter trading platform built for high-value bulk orders. For wealth management professionals, we offer a unique destination for their clients’ crypto portfolios from a single platform, and we enable fully electronic clearing and settlement of off-exchange crypto trades.

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. Within Platform, the Site Reliability Engineering 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.

The Embedded SRE team is a part of Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on engaging 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 Role: Site Reliability Engineer

You will be an integral part of leading Gemini’s engineering teams towards modern DevOps practices, both by developing and providing modern automation and operational tooling, and working cross-functionally across Gemini’s engineering teams to influence and shape our development practices and culture.

Responsibilities:

• Running on-going performance evaluations and improvements for Gemini systems
• Creating “Production-ready Scorecards” to evaluate the health of systems pre-launch
• Implementing and teaching monitoring, alerting and automated resolution best practices
• Defining SLIs, SLOs with Engineering teams
• Educating and guiding Engineering teams on reliability and resiliency best practices, like statelessness, chaos testing, blue/green deployments etc.
• Building operational tooling and automations 

Qualifications:

• 2+ years using monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling to understand and remediate performance and health issues in systems at scale
• Good knowledge for various cloud technology providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in a code-first environment, developing automated solutions to solve support and operational issues
• Experience working with containerization such as Nomad, EKS (k8s), Docker, etc.
• Experience working with Configuration Management such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience writing scripts or cli tools that help increase Developer Productivity
• Experience working with Engineering teams to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Experience working in a code-drive, automation-first public cloud infrastructure (Terraform)

• Competitive base salary
• Benefits
• Discretionary annual bonus

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.