Senior Platform Security Engineer
Gemini · New York, NY
$140,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on engineering role focused on securing cloud and container infrastructure at a crypto platform. The position involves writing production code daily to build and maintain security controls across AWS and Kubernetes environments, managing IAM and RBAC systems, and developing internal security services consumed by other engineering teams. It suits engineers with a strong software development background combined with practical cloud and infrastructure security experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 85 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 50–130
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $143,559 (middle half $110,181–$179,574). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the intersection of security engineering and software development — the JD explicitly states 'you'll write production code daily' and requires 'strong software development skills in Python or Go with experience building production services', making 15-1252 (Software Developers) a credible alternative to 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts). The primary framing is security-domain ownership, so 15-1212 was chosen.
Python and Go are listed as interchangeable ('Python or Go') under Minimum Qualifications; Python is used as the primary skill name with Go in alternatives.
AWS is listed as 'AWS (or similar cloud providers)' under Minimum Qualifications — it is a hard gate on cloud security experience; Azure and GCP are the standard substitutes.
The salary range of $140,000–$200,000 applies specifically to New York, California, and Washington; the posting notes that employees not near a hub office are part of the remote workforce, but this role explicitly requires in-person attendance twice a week at the NYC office, so remote is set to false.
Okta, SAML/OIDC, Open Policy Agent/Rego, Linux systems engineering, and network security all appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked as preferred accordingly.
SAML and OIDC are listed together as identity standards under the same preferred requirement; SAML is the primary name with OIDC in alternatives.
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