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
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
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