Staff Platform Engineer - Remote Platform & Automation

Wwshemi; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity grant

Health plans

401k matching

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in the United States to lead platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, and automation. You will build self-service tooling, developer experience, and reliability improvements in production environments.

You will partner with engineering, security, data, and product leadership to drive observability, CI/CD, and scalable infrastructure while mentoring engineers and delivering durable software solutions that reduce toil.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering with production ownership.
• Experience in cloud platforms, IaC, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform capabilities across cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability engineering.
• Lead architecture recommendations and technical engagements across the SDLC, from 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.
• Experience with build tooling such as Bazel or Buck2.
• Create and evolve standard workflows for service development and delivery, including templates, libraries, deployment workflows, policy-as-code, and reusable platform building blocks.
• Design and improve the cloud, compute, storage, identity, and infrastructure building blocks used by engineering teams.
• Design and operate core network infrastructure across public clouds and regions, including routing, connectivity, traffic management, and security controls.
• Operate and improve the compute, container, networking, and cloud infrastructure that supports critical services and new workloads, including distributed and AI-enabled systems where appropriate.
• Improve the systems and workflows used to provision infrastructure, connect services, deliver changes, and recover from failures across environments.
• Define and use service-level indicators, SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness standards with engineering teams to make reliability and launch decisions explicit and measurable.
• 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.
• Reduce repetitive operational work. Measure it, automate or eliminate it, and keep the team focused primarily on engineering work that improves reliability, scale, security, cost, or developer experience.
• Influence engineering standards and practices across teams through design reviews, technical writing, prototypes, internal education, and direct collaboration.
• Build alignment across competing priorities and stakeholders; make pragmatic tradeoffs while preserving clear interfaces and room for future evolution.
• Mentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the quality of platform engineering practices across Gemini.

Skills

Strong technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Technical communication

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Gemini is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in the United States to lead platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, and automation. You will build self-service tooling, developer experience, and reliability improvements in production environments.

You will partner with engineering, security, data, and product leadership to drive observability, CI/CD, and scalable infrastructure while mentoring engineers and delivering durable software solutions that reduce toil.