Gemini - Senior Platform Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or an equivalent combination of experience, including meaningful ownership of production systems. • Strong software engineering ability in at least one language such as Go, Python, Java, Rust, or similar, with experience building maintainable services, automation, CLIs, APIs, or developer tools - not only scripts or one-off configuration. • Demonstrated experience operating infrastructure and distributed systems in production, including diagnosing failures, managing capacity, improving performance, and designing for high availability and recovery. • Experience designing, operating, or improving production systems across cloud infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, deployment platforms, or related infrastructure domains. • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or an equivalent system. • Experience with containers and orchestration, such as Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Docker, or Nomad, including workload deployment, networking, security, and operational troubleshooting. • 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, including testing, deployment, progressive rollout, rollback, and change validation. • Practical experience with observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and production health models. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling is valuable. • Working knowledge of SLOs, error budgets, incident response, blameless postmortems, and techniques for reducing operational toil. • Experience with high-availability architectures, capacity planning, failure recovery, and the operational tradeoffs required to run 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. • Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet is useful, but configuration management alone is not sufficient for this role. • Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies and domains quickly, including the infrastructure and reliability characteristics of data-intensive, event-driven, or AI/ML workloads. • Strong technical communication and leadership skills; able to explain tradeoffs, influence across teams, mentor others, and turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems. • It Pays to Work Here • The compensation & benefits package for this role includes: • 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 • Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000 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.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain platform services, APIs, CLIs, controllers, and automation in languages such as Go, 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. • Create and evolve paved paths for service development and delivery, including templates, libraries, deployment workflows, policy-as-code, and reusable platform primitives. • Design and improve the cloud, compute, storage, identity, and infrastructure primitives used by engineering teams. • Design and operate core network infrastructure — VPCs, Cloud Routing, and security controls across public clouds and regions. • Operate and improve the compute, container, networking, and cloud foundations that support critical services and emerging 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 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. • Participate in an appropriately staffed on-call rotation, lead incident response when needed, and turn incidents and recurring operational work into permanent improvements through blameless postmortems and follow-through. • Reduce toil deliberately. Measure repetitive operational work, automate or eliminate it, and keep the team focused primarily on engineering work that improves reliability, scale, security, cost, or developer experience. • Collaborate with product and engineering teams on architecture, productionization, and technical design; provide guidance without becoming a ticket-based operations layer. • Establish technical direction through design documents, prototypes, testing, metrics, and iterative delivery. Make pragmatic tradeoffs while preserving clear interfaces and room for future evolution.
Benefits
• 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.
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