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Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all - bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact.\nThe Department: Platform\nOur Platform organization’s purpose is to enable Gemini to scale effectively and empower our engineering teams to focus on building innovative financial products and experiences for individuals around the world. Platform builds a scalable and secure foundation that enables Engineering to develop, deploy, validate, and operate services in production; improve reliability; reduce repetitive operational work; and improve system efficiency through architectural improvements.\nThe Platform team builds products for engineers. We work directly with product, application engineering, data, and security teams to understand their needs, establish safe defaults, and provide standard workflows for building and operating services. We treat internal platforms as production software with users, service-level objectives, roadmaps, documentation, and feedback loops.\nThe Role: Staff Platform Engineer\nYou will provide technical leadership for the software and infrastructure that form Gemini’s internal engineering platform. This is a software engineering role grounded in deep production and infrastructure experience. You will build self-service systems, developer tools, and automation that improve the way teams create, deploy, scale, observe, and operate services.\nYou will shape platform strategy across cloud, networking, compute, storage, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and the systems required to run highly available services in production. You will partner with engineering, security, data, and product leaders to turn broad operational needs into reliable platform products, establish clear technical direction, and drive adoption across teams.\nYou will make infrastructure programmable, secure, observable, and resilient; use SLOs and error budgets to guide tradeoffs; and continuously replace manual operational work with well-designed software. The role spans software, systems, and infrastructure engineering, with an emphasis on solving cross-functional problems and delivering measurable improvements to developer productivity and production reliability.\nWhat success looks like in this role: Engineers can safely self-serve common workflows through documented, well-supported platform products. Platform capabilities are adopted because they reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Reliability, deployment safety, developer experience, and infrastructure efficiency improve measurably over time. Operational load grows more slowly than the number and scale of services supported by the team. Platform engineers remain close to production while spending the majority of their time on durable software and systems improvements.\nResponsibilities:\nSet technical direction for platform capabilities and contribute to a long-term plan for cloud, networking, infrastructure, delivery, and reliability engineering.\nLead architecture recommendations and technical engagements across the software development lifecycle, from early design through production operation.\nDesign, 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.\nBuild self-service capabilities that let engineers provision environments, deploy services, manage infrastructure, and respond to operational conditions safely without relying on manual platform intervention.\nExperience with build tooling such as Bazel or Buck2.\nCreate and evolve standard workflows for service development and delivery, including templates, libraries, deployment workflows, policy-as-code, and reusable platform building blocks.\nDesign and improve the cloud, compute, storage, identity, and infrastructure building blocks used by engineering teams.\nDesign and operate core network infrastructure across public clouds and regions, including routing, connectivity, traffic management, and security controls.\nOperate and improve the compute, container, networking, and cloud infrastructure that supports critical services and new workloads, including distributed and AI-enabled systems where appropriate.\nImprove the systems and workflows used to provision infrastructure, connect services, deliver changes, and recover from failures across environments.\nDefine and use service-level indicators, SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness standards with engineering teams to make reliability and launch decisions explicit and measurable.\nImprove observability, alerting, capacity planning, performance, and failure handling; design systems that degrade gracefully, roll out progressively, and recover automatically where safe.\nLead or coordinate response to significant incidents, ensure effective post-incident follow-through, and turn recurring operational work into permanent improvements through postmortems.\nReduce repetitive operational work. Measure it, automate or eliminate it, and keep the team focused primarily on engineering work that improves reliability, scale, security, cost, or developer experience.\nInfluence engineering standards and practices across teams through design reviews, technical writing, prototypes, internal education, and direct collaboration.\nBuild alignment across competing priorities and stakeholders; make pragmatic tradeoffs while preserving clear interfaces and room for future evolution.\nMentor engineers, develop technical leaders, and raise the quality of platform engineering practices across Gemini.\nQualifications:\n8+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or an equivalent combination of experience, including substantial ownership of production systems.\nStrong 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.\nDemonstrated experience operating infrastructure and distributed systems in production, including diagnosing failures, managing capacity, improving performance, and designing for high availability and recovery.\nExperience designing, operating, or improving production systems across cloud infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, deployment platforms, or related infrastructure domains.\nHands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or an equivalent system.\nExperience with containers and orchestration, such as Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, Docker, or Nomad, including workload deployment, networking, security, and operational troubleshooting.\nExperience owning and managing cloud network security controls, including network firewalls, DNS filtering, and network segmentation.\nExperience designing or improving CI/CD and automated software delivery systems, including testing, deployment, progressive rollout, rollback, and change validation.\nPractical experience with observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and production health models. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling is valuable.\nWorking knowledge of SLOs, error budgets, incident response, blameless postmortems, and techniques for reducing operational toil.\nExperience with high-availability architectures, capacity planning, failure recovery, and the operational tradeoffs required to run critical systems at scale.\nExperience building secure-by-default systems and collaborating with security teams on identity, access control, secrets, supply-chain security, and policy enforcement.\nAbility to learn unfamiliar technologies and domains quickly, including the infrastructure and reliability characteristics of data-intensive, event-driven, or AI/ML workloads.\nTrack record of setting technical direction, leading architecture across multiple teams, and influencing decisions without relying on direct authority.\nExperience mentoring engineers, developing technical leaders, and communicating complex technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong technical communication and leadership skills; able to turn cross-functional problems into maintainable systems and delivered results.\nIt Pays to Work Here\nThe compensation & benefits package for this role includes:\nCompetitive starting pay\nA discretionary annual bonus\nLong-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant\nComprehensive health plans\n401K with company matching\nPaid Parental Leave\nFlexible time off\nSalary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $168,000 - $240,000 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.\nIn 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.\nAt 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. 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