Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Provide technical leadership for software and infrastructure forming Gemini's internal engineering platform, building self-service systems and automation to improve developer productivity and production reliability.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Self-service developer tools, automation, platform services, APIs, and infrastructure building blocks for engineering teams
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, DevOps, and internal platform engineering
Required skills
Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, observability, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, network security, container orchestration
Preferred skills
Bazel, Buck2, OpenTelemetry, policy-as-code
Technologies
Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, Docker, Nomad, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Bazel, Buck2, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for platform capabilities; design and build platform services, APIs, and automation; create self-service capabilities for environment provisioning and deployment; design and operate cloud, compute, storage, and network infrastructure; improve observability, alerting, and capacity planning; lead incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers and raise platform engineering practices
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & hands-on IC