Staff Platform Engineer

Gemini

. Set technical direction for platform capabilities and contribute to long-term plans for cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability engineering .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $168,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering and infrastructure management, with a strong focus on cloud technologies, automation, and operational excellence. Proven ability to lead architecture decisions, mentor teams, and improve production systems through observability and incident response.

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Cloud Infrastructure ManagementSoftware Engineering in Go, Python, or TypeScriptInfrastructure as Code with TerraformContainer Orchestration with KubernetesIncident Response and Postmortem Analysis

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringAPI DevelopmentAutomationCloud NetworkingCI/CD SystemsObservabilityHigh-Availability ArchitecturesSecurity Controls ManagementCapacity Planning

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringTechnical CommunicationCollaborationInfluencing Without Authority

Tools & Technologies

AWSGCPAzureTerraformKubernetesDockerEKSGKEAKSNomad

Industry Keywords

Production SystemsDistributed SystemsOperational Toil ReductionService-Level IndicatorsPolicy Enforcement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonRustTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for platform capabilities and contribute to long-term plans for cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability engineering
Lead architecture recommendations and technical engagements across the software development lifecycle
Design, build, maintain, and operate platform services, APIs, CLIs, controllers, workflows, and automation
Build self-service capabilities for provisioning environments, deploying services, managing infrastructure, and responding to operational conditions
Create and evolve standard workflows including templates, libraries, deployment workflows, policy-as-code, and reusable platform building blocks
Design and improve cloud, compute, storage, identity, and infrastructure building blocks
Design and operate core network infrastructure across public clouds and regions
Operate and improve compute, container, networking, and cloud infrastructure supporting critical services and new workloads
Improve infrastructure provisioning, service connectivity, change delivery, and failure recovery workflows
Define and use service-level indicators, SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness standards
Improve observability, alerting, capacity planning, performance, and failure handling
Lead or coordinate significant incident response and post-incident follow-through
Reduce repetitive operational work by measuring, automating, or eliminating it
Influence engineering standards through design reviews, technical writing, prototypes, internal education, and collaboration
Build alignment across competing priorities and stakeholders
Mentor engineers and develop technical leaders

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or an equivalent combination of experience, including substantial ownership of production systems
Strong software engineering ability in at least one language such as Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, or similar
Experience building maintainable services, automation, CLIs, APIs, or developer tools
Demonstrated experience operating infrastructure and distributed systems in production
Experience designing, operating, or improving production systems across cloud infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, deployment platforms, or related infrastructure domains
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code such as Terraform
Experience with containers and orchestration such as Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, Docker, or Nomad
Experience owning and managing cloud network security controls, including network firewalls, DNS filtering, and network segmentation
Experience designing or improving CI/CD and automated software delivery systems
Practical experience with observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and production health models
Working knowledge of SLOs, error budgets, incident response, blameless postmortems, and reducing operational toil
Experience with high-availability architectures, capacity planning, failure recovery, and operating critical systems at scale
Experience building secure-by-default systems and collaborating with security teams on identity, access control, secrets, supply-chain security, and policy enforcement
Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies and domains quickly, including data-intensive, event-driven, or AI/ML workloads
Track record of setting technical direction, leading architecture across multiple teams, and influencing decisions without direct authority
Experience mentoring engineers, developing technical leaders, and communicating complex technical tradeoffs
Strong technical communication and leadership skills
Must complete in-person onboarding at one of Gemini’s office locations

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive starting pay
A discretionary annual bonus
Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
Comprehensive health plans
401K with company matching
Paid Parental Leave
Flexible time off