Staff Platform Engineer

gemini; United States; Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Equity grant

Job summary

Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the software and infrastructure that enables product engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate services at scale. The role blends hands-on software engineering with cross-team technical leadership to turn infrastructure and reliability work into durable, self-service platform products.

The mission is to make engineering faster, safer, and more scalable by replacing manual operations with clear defaults and automated tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering with production ownership.
• Strong software engineering ability in Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust with durable services.
• Hands-on ops of distributed systems, failure diagnosis, capacity and reliability work.
• Practical experience with cloud providers and IaC tooling (Terraform or equivalent).
• Experience with containers/orchestration such as Kubernetes, Docker, and related tooling.
• Track record of setting direction, leading architecture across teams, without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and contribute to a long-term platform roadmap across cloud, compute, storage, and reliability.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical engagements across the SDLC from design to production.
• Design, build, and maintain platform services, APIs, CLIs, controllers, and automation.
• Create self-service capabilities for provisioning environments, deploying services, and managing infra.
• Improve CI/CD and automated software delivery for safer, faster deployments.
• Reduce operational toil, coordinate incident responses, and drive postmortems and improvements.
• Influence engineering standards via reviews, education, and mentorship.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Bazel

Buck2

Job description

**Role overview**

An internal engineering platform team is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the software and infrastructure that enables product engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate services at scale. The role combines deep hands-on software engineering with cross-team technical leadership, focused on turning infrastructure, delivery, and reliability work into reliable, self-service platform products. The mission is to make engineering faster, safer, and more scalable by replacing manual operations with durable software and clear defaults.

**Responsibilities**

• Set technical direction and contribute to a long-term roadmap across cloud, networking, compute, storage, software delivery, and reliability engineering.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical engagements across the software development lifecycle, from early design through production operation.
• Design, build, and maintain platform services, APIs, CLIs, controllers, workflows, and automation in languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, or similar, owning them through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing production support.
• Build self-service capabilities that let engineering teams provision environments, deploy services, manage infrastructure, and respond to operational conditions without manual platform intervention.
• Improve CI/CD and automated software delivery systems while increasing deployment safety and developer velocity.
• Measure and reduce operational toil, coordinate response to significant incidents, run effective postmortems, and turn recurring issues into permanent reliability improvements.
• Influence engineering standards across teams through design reviews, technical writing, prototypes, internal education, and mentorship.

**Requirements**

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or an equivalent combination, including substantial ownership of production systems.
• Strong software engineering ability in at least one language such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust, with experience building maintainable services, CLIs, APIs, or developer tools.
• Hands-on experience operating distributed systems in production, including failure diagnosis, capacity management, performance improvement, and high-availability design.
• Practical experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or an equivalent system.
• Experience with containers and orchestration such as Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, Docker, or Nomad, including workload deployment, networking, security, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience owning cloud network security controls, including firewalls, DNS filtering, and network segmentation.
• Track record of setting technical direction, leading architecture across multiple teams, and influencing decisions without relying on direct authority.

**Nice to have**

• Build tooling experience such as Bazel or Buck2.
• Background in capacity planning, failure recovery, and the operational tradeoffs of running critical systems at scale.
• Experience building secure-by-default systems and collaborating on identity, access control, secrets, supply-chain security, and policy enforcement.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar domains quickly, including the infrastructure characteristics of data-intensive, event-driven, or AI/ML workloads.

**Benefits and work setup**

• Base salary range of $168,000 to $240,000 for New York, with a discretionary annual bonus and a new-hire equity grant.
• Comprehensive health plans, 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.
• Hybrid work model at hub office locations, with a remote workforce option for employees outside hub cities and required in-person onboarding.