Security Engineering Intern

Job Description

Security Engineering Intern | Gemini

The Tone:
This is a 12-week summer internship at Gemini, located in New York City, NY (hybrid). Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform, founded to provide simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services. The company’s mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by offering trusted access to the decentralized future. This role is crucial for protecting Gemini and its customers from sophisticated cyber attacks, securing high-value assets, and solving technical challenges that directly impact the platform’s reliability and trustworthiness.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: 12-week summer internship program
• Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
• Pay: $50 hourly
• Team: Information Security engineering team
• Mission: Identify and fix vulnerabilities, detect and contain active threats, build countermeasures, and allow auditors to verify the effectiveness of security controls.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Triage: Triage vulnerability reports and alerts to ensure that the threat is real.
• Develop: Develop automation and scripts to reduce the workload for security work that may currently be manual.
• Identify: Improve the ability to identify vulnerabilities in code and infrastructure.
• Review: Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.
• Respond: Be on-call to receive security alerts which require immediate response, triage and containment working with best in class security engineers.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Associate’s, or Master’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering or comparable. Early Career.
• Experience: Basic understanding of core Systems Administration and Software Engineering concepts.
• Skills: A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between security, speed and quality; learning to work collaboratively on a team and communicate in meetings; effectively communicating work status to teammates and manager; proactively asking questions and reaching out for help when stuck; voicing concerns or need for clarification to their manager; accepting feedback graciously and learning from experience.
• Bonus: Interest in application security, infrastructure security, client security, blockchain security, threat detection and response, or GRC work.