Staff Platform Engineer

The Role: Staff Platform Engineer You will provide technical leadership for the software and infrastructure that form Gemini’s internal engineering platform. This is a software engineering role grounded in deep production and infrastructure experience. You will build self-service systems, developer tools, and automation that improve the way teams create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services. You will shape platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, storage, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and the systems required to run highly available services in production. You will partner with engineering, security, data, and product leaders to turn broad operational needs into reliable platform products, establish clear technical direction, and drive adoption across teams. You will make infrastructure programmable, secure, observable, and resilient; use SLOs and error budgets to guide tradeoffs; and continuously replace manual operational work with well-designed software. The role spans software, systems, and infrastructure engineering, with an emphasis on solving cross-functional problems and delivering measurable improvements to developer productivity and production reliability. What success looks like in this role: Engineers can safely self-serve common workflows through documented, well-supported platform products. Platform capabilities are adopted because they reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Reliability, deployment safety, developer experience, and infrastructure efficiency improve measurably over time. Operational load grows more slowly than the number and scale of services supported by the team. Platform engineers remain close to production while spending the majority of their time on durable software and systems improvements.

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. 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.

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $168,000 - $240,000 in the State of New York. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data. In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Expectations may vary by location and role, so candidates are encouraged to connect with their recruiter to learn more about the specific policy for the role. Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce. All employees, however, are required to onboard in-person at one of our office locations. At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.#LI-AA1