Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Gemini, you design, build, and operate the software and infrastructure that form Gemini's internal engineering platform. You work across cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD to enable engineering teams to create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services reliably. This role spans software, systems, and infrastructure engineering, with an emphasis on durable abstractions and measurable improvements to developer velocity and production reliability.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain platform services, APIs, CLIs, controllers, and automation in languages such as Go, Python, or similar, owning 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 including 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 by measuring repetitive operational work, automating or eliminating it, and keeping 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, making pragmatic tradeoffs while preserving clear interfaces and room for future evolution.

What you bring

• 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.
• 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 including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and production health models.
• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability tooling.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

What we offer

• Base salary between $140,000 and $200,000 in the State of New York (not inclusive of bonus or equity).
• 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.
• Hybrid work approach at hub offices in the United States, with flexibility for remote work; all employees required to onboard in-person at one of Gemini's office locations.

About Gemini

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. As a publicly traded company, Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries, serving as a bridge between traditional finance and the emerging cryptoeconomy.