Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Platform

Gemini Trust Company; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cryptocurrency firm is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to enhance operational efficiency and resilience within their engineering teams. This role, based in San Francisco, requires expertise in monitoring and automation tools and offers a competitive salary with comprehensive benefits. Candidates must be prepared to work in-office twice a week, contributing to innovative financial product development and operational reliability.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary

Annual discretionary bonus

Long-term equity incentives

Comprehensive health plans

401K with matching

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems performance monitoring and remediation.
• Experience as a Technical Leader in a team.
• Experience with code-driven automation in public cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary operational support for various services.
• Improve reliability and time-to-market across all services.
• Run performance evaluations and improvements.

Skills

Monitoring tools

Automation tooling

Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Containerization (Nomad, EKS, Docker)

Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Scripting in Python, Go

Job description

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.

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: Staff 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.

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

Responsibilities:

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for various Gemini services
• Improve reliability, quality and time-to-market across all Gemini services and offerings
• Guide engineering teams onto the various supported services provided by Platform
• Run on-going performance evaluations and improvements for Gemini systems
• Provide architecture recommendations and engagement as part of SDLC
• Create “Production-ready Scorecards” to evaluate the health of systems pre-launch
• Implement and teaching monitoring, alerting and automated resolution best practices
• Define SLIs, SLOs with Engineering teams
• Educate and guide Engineering teams on reliability and resiliency best practices, like statelessness, chaos testing, blue/green deployments etc.
• Build operational tooling and automations

Qualifications:

• 7+ 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 as a Technical Leader within a team, helping evaluating and making tech decisions for the team
• 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 in high-level languages like Python, Go, etc.
• Experience analyzing system and application performance, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending architectural or systemic improvements
• Experience working with Engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Experience working in a code-drive, automation-first public cloud infrastructure (Terraform)

It Pays to Work Here The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• 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

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $168,000 - $240,000in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

In the United States, employees within the New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office on a hybrid cadence, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every work day. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce.

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.

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