Staff Platform Engineer: Build Self-Serve DevOps Tools

Gemini; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401K with company matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Gemini seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for our internal engineering platform. You will build self-service systems and automation that improve how teams create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services.

You will shape platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, storage, CI/CD, and security, partnering with engineering, security, data, and product leaders to deliver durable software and reliable systems in production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or equivalent with production ownership.
• Proficient in Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust with maintainable services and tooling.
• Experience operating production distributed systems with high availability and capacity management.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience with containers, orchestration (Kubernetes), networking, security, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform capabilities including cloud, networking, compute, storage, delivery, and reliability engineering.
• Lead architecture recommendations across the software development lifecycle from design to production operation.
• Design, build, and maintain platform services, CLIs, APIs, and automation; own them end-to-end.
• Develop self-service capabilities for environments, deployments, and infrastructure management.
• Improve observability, capacity planning, performance, and incident response; drive postmortems and improvements.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Bazel

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Gemini seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for our internal engineering platform. You will build self-service systems and automation that improve how teams create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services.

You will shape platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, storage, CI/CD, and security, partnering with engineering, security, data, and product leaders to deliver durable software and reliable systems in production.