Benefits & Perks:

We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks which include:

• One-time home office set up stipend
• Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
• Flexible paid time off, paid leave for new parents, and flexible work hours
• Insurance for all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
• Employee stock options

About HackerRank:

HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $100 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,500+ companies across industries and 24M+ developers around the world. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every step of the hiring process, allowing teams to hire the best and reduce engineering time. Developers rely on HackerRank to turn their skills into great jobs. We’re data-driven givers who take full ownership of our work and love delighting our customers!

HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide equal opportunity to everyone for employment on the basis of individual performance and qualification. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Overview

About the Role - Are you excited about cutting-edge distributed systems, data technologies, ML infrastructure, and scalable designs? Are you inspired by delivering concrete impact to tens of millions of users and partners, while solving some of the toughest technical challenges in a 4-sided marketplace?  Are you passionate about mentoring and growing engineering talent, while instilling and fostering a principled engineering culture?  If so, we have a job for you!  The Ads Engineering team is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to act as the Area Tech Lead of Infrastructure and Systems, reporting directly to the Ads VP of Engineering.  In this role, you will directly contribute to the team’s myriad infrastructure/system innovations, both as an Individual Contributor and as a Tech Lead.  You will lead the team to design a next-generation serving and quality stack that supports the business’ broadening growth.  You will partner with Eng and PM Directors to prioritize and support all product needs.  You will develop company-defining collaborations with other engineering teams across Instacart.  You will grow and mentor engineers, and contribute to shaping engineering culture not only for Ads but for all of Instacart Engineering.

About the Team - The Ads Engineering team builds E2E, full-stack systems to power Instacart’s industry-leading ads innovations in digital ads’ top growing channel - Retail Media. As a fast-growing, critical piece of Instacart’s overall business, the Ads Engineering team strives to both meet and support our advertiser partners for their needs today, while also challenging the status quo to push forward next-generation technologies.  The team consists of a broad spectrum of engineers across all levels, with expertise ranging from backend infrastructure to data engineering to machine learning to frontend technologies and more.

About the Job 

• Leads, solves, and builds system innovations to solve some of the most challenging and interesting technical problems.  Some examples:
• ads serving and indexing systems with rigorous scaling, availability, and latency constraints, that can scale horizontally to billions of product items,
• infrastructure to rank heterogeneous content with cutting-edge ML models,
• data systems and products that process and move billions of events every day, and that power not just Instacart but hundreds of other retailer partners, and
• workflow orchestration that advances the state of the art in scale, correctness, and developer velocity.
• Establishes Ads’ tech strategy and roadmap, balancing between both short-term needs and long-term sustainability.
• Fosters a thriving engineering culture, including running and improving key engineering processes and providing technical leadership and oversight.
• Grows and mentors engineering talent; identifies and develops the next set of leaders.
• Builds and maintains synergies with other engineering teams across Instacart; acts as a bridge to represent Ads in company-wide engineering forums and activities.
• Contributes to company-level tech initiatives as one of the company’s most senior engineering leaders.
• Note this is a hands-on IC / TL role at the Director+ level.  There are no people management expectations.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and leading systems engineering.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure and systems technologies.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate at the most senior engineering levels.
• Proven track record of growing engineering culture and talent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and expertise with data engineering, ML infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and/or Ads technologies.
• Experience with scalable, customizable service architectures.
• Familiar with AWS, Golang, Spark, Clickhouse, Snowflake, TensorFlow.

Your impact

At Handshake, we are assembling a diverse team of dynamic engineers who are passionate about creating high-quality, impactful products. As an ML Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a key role in driving the architecture, implementation, and evolution of our rapidly growing Machine Learning platform. Your technical expertise and leadership will be instrumental in helping millions of students discover meaningful careers, irrespective of their educational background, network, or financial resources.

Our primary focus is on building scalable ML infrastructure that empowers our Machine Learning and Relevance teams to iterate quickly and rapidly deploy ML solutions into various surfaces in our product stack.

Your experience

• Strong software engineering foundations:Experience with object-oriented and functional programming languages in production (Python, Golang), software design patterns, testing strategies and dev/ops practices (CI/CD). 
• Cloud platform expertise: Hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies. This includes tools like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform) and an ML stack (Vertex, SageMaker, Ray, or similar) for handling machine learning workflows.
• ML aptitude:Experience building product features with ML frameworks like Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow and big data tooling like Spark.
• Problem-solving prowess: Outstanding problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex machine learning infrastructure challenges and propose innovative, effective solutions.
• Teamwork oriented: A collaborative approach to work, coupled with the ability to communicate complex machine learning concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and take input from Relevance stakeholders to guide implementation details.

Bonus areas of expertise

• ML infrastructure experience: Experience designing, implementing, and managing components of production ML infrastructure including:
  • • Real-time/batch ML model prediction and inference
    • Cluster management and deployment, deployment of GPU based training jobs
    • Familiarity with vector search tooling (Elasticsearch, Pinecone, etc…)
    • Creating or developing Feature Store components (offline/online stores and feature registry technologies)
    • Building ML search or ML recommendations systems
• Containerization and orchestration: Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Generative AI (LLMs): Familiarity working with large language models such as ChatGPT, LLaMa, or Bard for text generation and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.
• Streaming data processing: Experience with streaming data processing platforms such as Apache Beam or Apache Flink 

Compensation range

$150,000-$190,000

Senior Software Engineer - Passport

US Remote

Who we are

Are you passionate about innovating at the intersection of technology and personal security? At Pindrop, we recognize that the human voice is a unique personal identifier, increasingly susceptible to sophisticated fraud, including the threat of deepfakes. We're leading the way in developing cutting-edge authentication, fraud prevention, and deepfake detection. Our mission is to provide seamless and secure digital experiences, safeguarding the most personal aspect of our identity: our voice. Here, you'll be part of a team driven by values of Innovation, Customer Advocacy, Excellence, and Impact. We're not just creating a safer digital landscape by fortifying trust and integrity with those we serve, we’re also building a dynamic, supportive workplace where your contributions make a real difference.

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Pindrop is backed by world-class investors such as Andreessen-Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG

What you’ll do 

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance services and APIs.
• Develop applications in Golang and Python on top of a modern cloud focused platform.
• Develop and maintain services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3 as well as GCP native products
• Deliver production ready code from start to finish.
• Review code to maintain quality with an eye towards performance, scale, and security.
• Work in a cross-functional environment, composed of software engineers, test engineers, research scientists, and product managers.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation.
• Contribute to improving software engineering best practices.

Who you are

• You have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• You enjoy working within a collaborative environment across multiple departments.
• You love solving hard problems and finding ways to improve the efficiency of processes.
• You have a proven track record of providing stable and secure code in production environments.
• You are able to contribute to the feature development in the platform/product with minimal supervision.
• You can deliver production ready code from start to finish with an eye towards performance, scale and security and with an understanding of how code could impact cloud scalability
• You are resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
• You are optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solution
• You are resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions and teach yourself something new when needed
• You take accountability, do the things you say you’ll do, under-promise and over-deliver
• You are nimble and adaptable when priorities change and continue to see the “forest through the trees”
• You are happy in a role in which a week in the life might include context switching between application diagnostic troubleshooting using industry standard tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, triaging production issues using tools such as Google Logging and Cloud Trace, troubleshooting regression tests in different environments, designing new product solutions, improving current product features, and coding

Your skill-set: 

• 5-7 years of software development experience.
• Experience with designing and implementing highly scalable cloud based APIs.
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as Python and Go.
• Expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms and Concurrency.
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps practices towards deployment of SaaS services, including hands on experience with Jenkins, Github Actions, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, as well as experience with managing and maintaining applications in a multi-container environment, such as Kubernetes 
• Knowledge of different Data Storage technologies such as Redis, MySQL, etc.
• Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.
• Experience developing and maintaining services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Linux Proficiency.

What’s in it for you

As a Pindropper, you join a rapidly growing company making technology more human with the power of voice. You will work alongside some of the best and brightest. We’re a passionate group committed to excellence - but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying the journey as a team with chess and poker tournaments, catered lunches and happy hours, wellness programming, and more. Because we take our jobs seriously, we add in time for rest with Unlimited PTO, Focus Thursday, and Company-wide Rest Days. 

Within 30 days you’llUnderstand and know the product architecture as well as system design

• Ramp up on development process 
• Build relationships with others on the team
• Participate in the grooming and planning meetings
• Pick up a small bug fix or code implementation/testing project
• Complete onboarding and attend New Employee Orientation sessions with other new Pindroppers

Within 60 days you’ll Actively participate in the team meetings 

• Start working on a bigger project/feature
• Deliver small code changes going through the complete SDLC

Within 90 days you’ll Able to pick up any tasks coming out of the planning meetings

• Drive some of the task breakdown in grooming and planning meetings
• Deliver a major feature design or implementation
• Teach us something new

What we offer 

As a part of Pindrop, you’ll have a direct impact on our growing list of products and the future of security in the voice-driven economy. We hire great people and take care of them. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits we offer:

• Competitive compensation, including equity for all employees
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 4 company-wide rest days in 2024 where the entire company rests and recharges!
• Generous health and welfare plans to choose from - including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan!
• Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution
• Affordable vision and dental plans for you and your family
• Employer-provided life and disability coverage with additional supplemental options
• Paid Parental Leave - Equal for all parents, including birth, adoptive & foster parents
• One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family! It’s our way of welcoming new Pindroplets to the family!
• Identity protection through Norton LifeLock
• Remote-first culture with opportunities for in-person team events
• Recurring monthly home office allowance
• When we need a break, we keep it fun with happy hours, ping pong and foosball, drinks and snacks, and monthly massages!
• Remote and in-person team activities (think cheese tastings, chess tournaments, talent shows, murder mysteries, and more!)
• Company holidays
• Annual professional development and learning benefit
• Pick your own Apple MacBook Pro
• Retirement plan with competitive 401(k) match
• Wellness Program including Employee Assistance Program, 24/7 Telemedicine 

What we live by

At Pindrop, our Core Values are fundamental beliefs at the center of all we do. They are our guiding principles that dictate our actions and behaviors. Our Values are deeply embedded into our culture in big and small ways and even help us decide right from wrong when the path forward is unclear. At Pindrop, we believe in taking accountability to make decisions and act in a way that reflects who we are. We truly believe making decisions and acting with our Core Values in mind will help us to achieve our goals and keep Pindrop a great place to work:    

• Audaciously Innovate - We continue to change the world, and the way people safely engage and interact with technology. As first principle thinkers, we challenge standards, take risks and learn from our mistakes in order to make positive change and continuous improvement. We believe nothing is impossible.
• Evangelical Customers for Life - We delight, inspire and empower customers from day one and for life. We create a partnership and experience that results in a shared passion.   We are champions for our customers, and our customers become our champions, creating a universal commitment to one another. 
• Execution Excellence - We do what we say and say what we do. We are accountable for making the tough decisions and necessary tradeoffs to deliver quality and effective solutions on time.
• Win as a Company - Every time we win, we win as a company. Every time we lose, we lose as a company. We break down silos, support one another, embrace diversity and celebrate our successes. We are better together. 
• Make a Difference - Every day we have the opportunity to make a positive impact. We operate with dedication, passion, and uncompromising integrity, creating a safer, more secure world.

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

Pindrop is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at Pindrop, it is our mission to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, marital and/or veteran status.

#LI-Remote

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.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Onchain

The Role: Senior Software Engineer, Security

Security of customers’ digital assets and personal information held with Gemini is our first and foremost priority. Gemini’s Signing team develops and maintains a trusted execution environment for the purpose of working with Gemini customers’ digital assets. To directly support our cryptographic software, hardware, and trusted execution environments, this work includes developing and managing security tools and platforms, assisting users to design and assess the security internal systems, and simplifying manual or complex software security processes.

In our work, we research and build applicable software and hardware security approaches to support our signing environment. An ideal candidate would have experience in the implementation of software that was used with one or more security areas (e.g., signing, encrypting, load-time attestation, digital signatures, sealing, binding). This engineer will also work closely with various teams including our Security Operations, Custody, Product Security, Wallet Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams. 

We are a dynamic group with both entrepreneurial spirit and security engineering experience. We have incredibly high aspirations, and we are looking for like-minded individuals who want to guide the transition to a new more decentralized world where access to digital assets is normalized and ubiquitous.

Responsibilities:

• Implement software applications that may include key storage, signing, encryption, code attestation, or secure boot.
• Design, deploy, and maintain security solutions supporting maintenance of digital assets.
• Work closely with software security engineers to develop the capabilities of the existing signing security infrastructure with a goal of security and scalability.
• Integrate the use of hardware security mechanisms into the Gemini software infrastructure.
• Work with hardware security mechanisms of interest include a trusted platform module (TPM) and/or hardware security modules (HSMs), and/or other similar hardware key storage mechanisms.
• Develop tools that integrate security into systems and process.
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios to validate operability of physical and digital material.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on expertise in the development of at least one area of software security that includes implementing software in any of the following: operating systems, kernel development, kernel modules, embedded security software, network security engineering, cryptographic protocols, or cryptographic hardware (PKCS#11, FIPS 201-1 PIV, smartcards, TPMs, HSMs, or TEEs)
• Hands-on expertise in any one of the following areas: hardware security modules or discrete trusted platform modules or firmware trusted platform modules orsecure enclaves 
• Experience in network engineering and security 
• Experience in researching and addressing complex business topics around TPMs, HSMs, TEEs, secure build infrastructure, and applied cryptography. Candidates without a strong understanding in one of these areas may still be a strong candidate if this is offset by a strong background in a systems security area (e.g., operating systems, embedded systems security, firmware security, network security engineering)
• Strong understanding of systems/network security, secure protocol design, secure build and supply chain management, encryption, authentication, key management and applied cryptography
• Demonstrated ability to convert theoretical security concepts into production
• Proficiency in a common scripting language including but not limited to Python, Ruby, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and debug issues, and demonstrate a methodical approach to root cause analysis
• Experience working with engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; attentive to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in software engineering
• 2+ years experience with secure software that makes use of a trusted platform module (TPM), hardware security module (HSM), trusted execution environment (TEE), smartcard, and/or other similar hardware key storage mechanism
• Ability to read and write code written in Python, Java, Scala, C/C++, and Golang
• Knowledge of hardware security, verified/secure boot, tamper resistance, side-channel attacks, anti-cloning, and PUFs
• Solid understanding of Product Management and Product Ownership, Agile practices and methodologies

It Pays to Work Here

• 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 $152,000 - $190,000 in 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.

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.

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.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Onchain

The Role: Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The infrastructure team at Gemini creates and manages tools and platforms, automates the creation and support of this infrastructure, helps integrate complex processes, and supports secure data access. We take a software-first mindset to use code to make and maintain our software infrastructure. We seek engineers who think of themselves as a software engineer first, with correlated expertise in back-end engineering. 

Our team builds and operates environments for the purpose of digital asset access. There are three main pillars of work including building and running network nodes, building and running validators, and supporting our next generation wallet infrastructure. In these pillars, we use and implement tools and software to support our cloud-based infrastructure. Given the need to build and integrate more of our software in the cloud, the ideal engineer will have extensive experience in developing, automating, and building software with associated cloud expertise (e.g., AWS or GCP). This engineer will also work closely with various teams including various teams such as Protocols, Product Security, On-chain, and Custody. 

We are a dynamic group with both entrepreneurial spirit and security engineering experience. We have incredibly high aspirations, and we are looking for like-minded individuals who want to guide the transition to a new more decentralized world where access to digital assets is normalized and ubiquitous.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy infrastructure in our three areas of focus 1) building and running network nodes, 2) building and running validators, and 3) building and running our next generation wallet infrastructure
• Develop tools and automation that integrate these systems in a secure way
• With a focus on our next generation wallet infrastructure, improve the capabilities of the existing infrastructure with a mindset towards infrastructure as code
• Improve availability and reliability while maintaining acceptable security 
• Integrate the use of cloud-based security mechanisms into the build infrastructure. Example security mechanisms include identity and access management and key management
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios to validate operability of physical and digital material

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years implementing software 
• Experience in at least one area of software development, operating systems or device driver development, hardware, secure protocols, encryption, authentication, key management, or applied cryptography – has expertise beyond automation
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, or others)
• Hands-on expertise with one or more of the following including ansible, puppet, docker, KMS, IAM, jenkins
• Experience implementing software automation processes applied in a cloud environment
• Proficiency in a common scripting language including but not limited to Python, Ruby, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and debug issues, and demonstrate a methodical approach to root cause analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; attentive to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in one of the three focus areas of blockchain node operations, validators as a service, and wallet infrastructure
• 1+ year Golang experience
• 2+ years implementing software in the cloud (e.g., AWS)
• 1+ years using monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling 
• Experience in a code-first environment, developing automated solutions to solve support and operational issues
• Experience working with engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Ability to read and write code written in Python, Java, Scala, C/C++, and Golang
• Demonstrated ability to convert theoretical security concepts into production
• Solid understanding of Product Management and Product Ownership, Agile practices and methodologies

• 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 $120,000 - $150,000 in 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.

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.

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.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Role: Staff Software Engineer, Security

Security of customers’ digital assets and personal information held with Gemini is our first and foremost priority. Gemini’s Signing team develops and maintains a trusted execution environment for the purpose of working with Gemini customers’ digital assets. To directly support our cryptographic software, hardware, and trusted execution environments, this work includes developing and managing security tools and platforms, assisting users to design and assess the security internal systems, and simplifying manual or complex software security processes.

In our work, we research and build applicable software and hardware security approaches to support our signing environment. An ideal candidate would have experience in the implementation of software that was used with one or more security areas (e.g., signing, encrypting, load-time attestation, digital signatures, sealing, binding). This engineer will also work closely with various teams including our Security Operations, Custody, Product Security, Wallet Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams. 

We are a dynamic group with both entrepreneurial spirit and security engineering experience. We have incredibly high aspirations, and we are looking for like-minded individuals who want to guide the transition to a new more decentralized world where access to digital assets is normalized and ubiquitous.

Responsibilities:

• Implement software applications that may include key storage, signing, encryption, code attestation, or secure boot.
• Design, deploy, and maintain security solutions supporting maintenance of digital assets
• Work closely with software security engineers to develop the capabilities of the existing signing security infrastructure with a goal of security and scalability.
• Integrate the use of hardware security mechanisms into the Gemini software infrastructure.
• Work with hardware security mechanisms of interest include a trusted platform module (TPM) and/or hardware security modules (HSMs), and/or other similar hardware key storage mechanisms.
• Develop tools that integrate security into systems and process.
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios to validate operability of physical and digital material.

Minimal Qualifications:

• Hands-on expertise in the development of at least one area of software security that includes implementing software in any of the following: operating systems, kernel development, kernel modules, embedded security software, network security engineering, cryptographic protocols, or cryptographic hardware (PKCS#11, FIPS 201-1 PIV, smartcards, TPMs, HSMs, or TEEs)
• Hands-on expertise in any one of the following areas: hardware security modules or discrete trusted platform modules or firmware trusted platform modules orsecure enclaves 
• Experience in network engineering and security 
• Experience in researching and addressing complex business topics around TPMs, HSMs, TEEs, secure build infrastructure, and applied cryptography. Candidates without a strong understanding in one of these areas may still be a strong candidate if this is offset by a strong background in a systems security area (e.g., operating systems, embedded systems security, firmware security, network security engineering)
• Strong understanding of systems/network security, secure protocol design, secure build and supply chain management, encryption, authentication, key management and applied cryptography
• Demonstrated ability to convert theoretical security concepts into production
• Proficiency in a common scripting language including but not limited to Python, Ruby, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and debug issues, and demonstrate a methodical approach to root cause analysis
• Experience working with engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; attentive to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in software engineering
• 2+ years experience with secure software that makes use of a trusted platform module (TPM), hardware security module (HSM), trusted execution environment (TEE), smartcard, and/or other similar hardware key storage mechanism
• Ability to read and write code written in Python, Java, Scala, C/C++, and Golang
• Knowledge of hardware security, verified/secure boot, tamper resistance, side-channel attacks, anti-cloning, and PUFs
• Solid understanding of Product Management and Product Ownership, Agile practices and methodologies

• 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 $172,000 - $215,000 in 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.

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.