Staff Platform Engineer: Build Self-Serve, Reliable Platform

Sierra Ventures; United States; On-site; USD 168,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual bonus

New hire equity

Health plans

401K match

Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for the software and infrastructure that power Gemini’s internal engineering platform. This role focuses on building self‑service systems, developer tools, and automation to improve how teams create, deploy, and operate services in production.

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

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software/infrastructure engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Proficient in Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust or similar for building services.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), IaC (Terraform) and container runtimes (Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform capabilities and contribute to a long-term plan for cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability engineering.
• Lead architecture recommendations 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; own them through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation.
• Build self-service capabilities that let engineers provision environments, deploy services, manage infrastructure, and respond to operational conditions safely without relying on manual platform intervention.
• Improve observability, alerting, capacity planning, performance, and failure handling; design systems that degrade gracefully, roll out progressively, and recover automatically where safe.
• Lead or coordinate response to significant incidents, ensure effective post-incident follow-through, and turn recurring operational work into permanent improvements through postmortems.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

SLOs

CI/CD

Observability

AWS

GCP

Azure

Tools

Bazel

Buck2

Docker

Job description

Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for the software and infrastructure that power Gemini’s internal engineering platform. This role focuses on building self‑service systems, developer tools, and automation to improve how teams create, deploy, and operate services in production.

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