Staff Platform Engineer

As a Staff Platform Engineer at Gemini, you provide technical leadership for the software and infrastructure that form Gemini's internal engineering platform. You build self-service systems, developer tools, and automation that improve the way teams create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services across a global crypto and Web3 platform.

What you'll do

• 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
• 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 by measuring it, automating or eliminating it, and keeping 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

What you bring

• 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, 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, AKS, 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
• 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
• Track record of setting technical direction, leading architecture across multiple teams, and influencing decisions without relying on direct authority
• Experience mentoring engineers, developing technical leaders, and communicating complex technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong technical communication and leadership skills; able to turn cross-functional problems into maintainable systems and delivered results

Nice to have

• Experience with build tooling such as Bazel or Buck2
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability tooling

What we offer

• Competitive starting pay, with a base salary range of $168,000 to $240,000 in New York
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401(k) with company matching
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off
• Hybrid work approach at hub offices, with remote work options for those not near a hub (all employees required to onboard in-person at an office location)

About Gemini

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. As a publicly traded company, Gemini aims to unlock financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future.