Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Security Engineer to secure its infrastructure through service hardening and developing foundational tools. The role involves building security services, tools, and automation while hardening cloud environments, securing container orchestration platforms, and implementing infrastructure-as-code security guardrails.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in the field
- Strong software development skills in Python or Go with experience building production services
- Strong experience securing AWS environments 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 expertise with Kubernetes security including admission controls, RBAC, network policies, and runtime protection
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and SRE principles
- Demonstrated ability to build, deploy, and maintain security tools and services in production
Benefits
- Competitive starting pay
- 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
