Gemini
Staff Platform Engineer
$168K–$240K
New York, New York +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
Miami, Florida
Remote (USA)
Gemini North America - Experience
- 8+ years; an equivalent combination of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE experience is accepted.
About the job
Provides technical leadership and builds Gemini’s internal platform software and infrastructure to improve developer self-service, production reliability, and engineering efficiency.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead architecture for platform capabilities across cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability.
- Build and operate platform services, developer tools, APIs, workflows, and automation that enable safe self-service.
- Improve production reliability, observability, incident response, and operational efficiency across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience operating production infrastructure and distributed systems, including high availability and recovery.
- Experience designing, operating, or improving production systems across cloud infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, deployment platforms, or related domains.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or an equivalent system.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability tooling.
Pay
$168,000 - $240,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Bazel, Buck2, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Operate infrastructure supporting distributed and AI-enabled systems where appropriate; learn the infrastructure and reliability characteristics of AI/ML workloads.
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