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title: 'Staff Platform Engineer at Gemini'
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# Staff Platform Engineer at Gemini

- **Company:** Gemini
- **Location:** New York, NY / Miami, FL / United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?for=gemini&token=8186546&gh_jid=8186546

## Job description

## About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. 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.

The Department: Platform

Our 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.

The 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.

The Role: Staff Platform Engineer

You 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.

You 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.

You 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.

What 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.

Responsibilities:

- 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.
- Experience with build tooling such as Bazel or Buck2.
- 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. Measure it, automate or eliminate it, and keep 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.

Qualifications:

- 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. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling is valuable.
- 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.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

- Competitive starting pay
- A discretionary annual bonus
- Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401K with company matching
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible time off

Salary 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.

In 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.

At 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. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

## #LI-AA1

## About Gemini

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gemini is a global crypto and prediction markets platform offering a regulated exchange, full-reserve custody, and related financial services for both individuals and institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: GEMI)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (with additional offices in Seattle, Miami, Singapore, London, and others)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cryptocurrency exchange & custody, prediction markets
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual investors and traders) and B2B (institutional clients)
- **Mission**: "to give our customers greater choice, independence, and opportunity" [gemini.com/careers](https://www.gemini.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Gemini Exchange**: A platform for buying, selling, and trading a range of cryptocurrencies with a regulated, full-reserve model.
- **Gemini Custody**: Qualified custodian service holding customer digital assets in segregated accounts 1:1, with no lending or rehypothecation. [gemini.com/trust-center](https://www.gemini.com/trust-center)
- **Gemini Predictions**: A prediction markets platform (recently launched, highlighted in Q1 2026 results). [investors.gemini.com](https://investors.gemini.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gemini-reports-first-quarter-2026-results-and-announces-100)
- **Gemini Credit Card**: A credit card that earns cryptocurrency rewards on everyday purchases.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources. As a public company, real-time market cap can be found on exchanges.
- **Key Metric**: As of Q1 2026, Gemini announced a $100 million strategic investment. The company employs over 500 people globally. [investors.gemini.com](https://investors.gemini.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gemini-reports-first-quarter-2026-results-and-announces-100)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Public company with broad institutional ownership; regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Audited by Deloitte for SOC certifications.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded into prediction markets; operates across 4 continents and 6 countries with 10+ office locations; first crypto exchange to obtain SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications. [gemini.com/careers](https://www.gemini.com/careers), [gemini.com/trust-center](https://www.gemini.com/trust-center)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Licensed as a trust company and qualified custodian under New York Banking Law – one of the most heavily regulated crypto platforms.
- **Full-reserve model**: No lending or fractional reserves; customer assets are always held 1:1 and available for withdrawal.
- **Security certifications**: SOC 1/2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 certified – first in the industry to achieve these. [gemini.com/trust-center](https://www.gemini.com/trust-center)
- **Transparency**: Public quarterly results and a trust center that details capital requirements and certification evidence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Prediction markets** as a new growth vertical alongside core exchange and custody.
- **Regulatory leadership**: Continuing to work with global regulators to shape thoughtful crypto policy.
- **Institutional adoption**: Maintaining trust and compliance to serve both retail and institutional clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work policy**: Offices in New York, Seattle, Miami, London, Singapore, and other cities; most roles offer a mix of in-office and remote work. [gemini.com/careers](https://www.gemini.com/careers)
- **Culture & values**: "Empower the individual", "Speed Matters", "Ownership is true leadership", "Together we win championships."
- **Benefits**: Flexible vacation, comprehensive health plans, retirement plan matching, generous parental leave, training and development, health/wellness perks.
- **Hiring process**: Take-home assessments for tech roles (and many non-tech); in-person/video final rounds; emphasis on collaboration and innovation.
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Global team across 6 countries; focus on inclusive environment where "each of us is a captain of our spaceship." [gemini.com/careers](https://www.gemini.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [gemini.com/careers](https://www.gemini.com/careers)
2. [gemini.com/trust-center](https://www.gemini.com/trust-center)
3. [investors.gemini.com](https://investors.gemini.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gemini-reports-first-quarter-2026-results-and-announces-100)
4. [github.com/Gemini](https://github.com/Gemini)
5. [tryjeremy.com/companies/gemini](https://tryjeremy.com/companies/gemini)

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