Senior Platform Security Lead: Hands-On with Terraform & AWS

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 195 000 - 300 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive starting pay

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity grant (long-term incentive)

Comprehensive health plans

401K with company matching

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Resumo da oferta

Gemini is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Security in the United States to lead and grow the Platform Security team. You’ll shape secure-by-design architectures, partner with engineering, and drive security tooling and automation at scale.

You’ll stay hands-on with Terraform, code reviews, and architecture diagrams, mentor engineers, define roadmaps, KPIs, and policies, and guide cross-functional partners to achieve robust security outcomes while balancing speed and reliability in a

Qualificações

• 5+ years of leadership experience for cloud-native engineering and/or security teams, with a strong preference for AWS-based organizations
• 10+ years of direct, technical experience in relevant roles (e.g., Platform Engineering, Security), with hands-on coding/IaC in the last 2–3 years
• Strong experience in AWS, EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• Experience leveraging industry security frameworks to mature security program and enable business outcomes
• Comfortable with hiring & scaling a team
• Prior success leading organizational change, startup experience preferred
• Able to communicate with technical stakeholders and translate needs into program outcomes
• Pragmatic about security requirements, avoid unnecessary best practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail

Responsabilidades

• Provide strategic and technical leadership of Gemini's Platform Security team, personally architecting and implementing security solutions alongside engineers — including writing and reviewing Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling code
• Align team-wide strategy with the needs of the business, internal partners, & peer Security leadership
• Enable the ongoing success & growth of the team through creation of hiring plans and hands-on technical mentorship — pairing with engineers, reviewing designs and PRs, and staying current on the team's actual codebase
• Establish a Platform Security roadmap for initiatives that will provide ever-increasing maturity of capabilities for stakeholders, while also reducing toil through automation
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for the team's hardest architecture and engineering problems, contributing working code/IaC when the situation calls for it
• Foster trust-centric relationships with key partner teams, ensuring that their voices are heard and needs are being met, while achieving excellent security outcomes together
• Lead the development of security policies, procedures, standards, & guidelines that will guide functional security outcomes with all GRC and Audits needs being met
• Determine program KPIs that will meaningfully highlight where we’re succeeding, or falling short of, the mission we aim to accomplish for the business
• Provide guidance through lived-experience and industry awareness on the different approaches to architecture, security engineering, and business-achievement goals
• Define a customer-first process, choosing to provide self-service solutions that minimize friction, create agility, and provide value-oriented ways to solve problems
• Manage relevant third-party vendor relationships, leading the determination of when-build vs buy in response to gaps in capabilities the business may have

Conhecimentos

Leadership experience

Cloud-native engineering

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Communication skills

Ferramentas

AWS

EKS (Kubernetes)

IAM

Terraform

GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Gemini is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Security in the United States to lead and grow the Platform Security team. You’ll shape secure-by-design architectures, partner with engineering, and drive security tooling and automation at scale.

You’ll stay hands-on with Terraform, code reviews, and architecture diagrams, mentor engineers, define roadmaps, KPIs, and policies, and guide cross-functional partners to achieve robust security outcomes while balancing speed and reliability in a