# Principal Software Engineer, Tooling (Product)

**Company**: Gemini
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,500 - $275,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Principal Product Engineer, you'll set technical direction for the customer-facing platform that defines how millions of users experience Gemini , onboarding, compliance, customer support, and the systems that hold the customer journey together.

Responsibilities:

- Own the technical vision and architecture for the customer-facing platform, designing for scale and reliability with a multi-year horizon and anticipating needs before they arrive.

- Review critical designs across organizations and drive the designs for projects involving the hardest technical challenges at the company; act as a key driver of demos and technical direction beyond your own team.

- Be accountable for one or more core company initiatives spanning onboarding, compliance (KYC/identity), and customer support , carrying them from ambiguity through production and long-term operation.

- Identify strategic direction in technology and product, proposing and adopting architecture and platform approaches that advance it; tie technical bets clearly to company objectives.

- Plan and deliver large, complex, cross-org programs with interdependencies across teams and systems, spanning months to years; identify the problems worth solving and advocate for their prioritization.

- Define patterns, operational guidelines, and engineering practices for your vertical(s), and extend process improvements across teams and command pilot units.

- Provide critical technical guidance proactively , raising the security, reliability, and quality bar across the organization, and debugging or contributing to the most complex parts of a system when needed.

- Act as a technical multiplier: mentor and develop engineers and future leaders, share knowledge, delegate to grow others, and lead initiatives across domains, including outside your core area of expertise.

- Drive the organization toward a strategic vision for strong systems, sustainable practice, and healthy engineering culture; play a critical role in recruiting and bar-raising.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 12+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems at scale.

- Recognized expertise in one or two core technical domains, with a track record of being accountable for company-level systems or initiatives end to end.

- A history of driving architecture and design for the hardest technical challenges across multiple teams or organizations.

- Demonstrated ability to set technical vision with company-level impact and to bring an increasingly strategic mindset to engineering decisions.

- Fluency across multiple layers of the stack (backend services plus web and/or mobile) and willingness to go deep wherever a problem requires.

- Proficiency in a typed language (e.g., TypeScript, Scala, Java, Go) and comfort with JavaScript/TypeScript on web and mobile surfaces.

- Experience building consumer-facing applications with strong product and UX sensibility.

- Fluency in using AI coding tools and automation, and a point of view on how to advance an agentic development practice.

- A record of acting as a technical multiplier , developing engineers and leaders, influencing prioritization across teams, and leading cross-domain initiatives.

- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical issues to diverse audiences and build alignment across organizations.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in the crypto or fintech industry, or as a user of crypto products.

- Deep experience with onboarding, identity/KYC, compliance, or customer support tooling.

- Experience architecting and operating AI agents or agentic workflows in production at scale.

- Familiarity with React/React Native and cloud/microservices architecture.

- A record of driving product and technical strategy with data and experimentation.

- Experience representing engineering externally (talks, writing) or in cross-company technical collaboration.

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 $192,500 - $275,000 in the State of New York.

## Skills

### Required
- TypeScript
- Scala
- Java
- Go
- JavaScript
- React
- React Native
- cloud/microservices architecture
- AI coding tools
- automation

### Nice to have
- crypto
- fintech
- onboarding
- identity/KYC
- compliance
- customer support tooling
- AI agents
- agentic workflows
- data experimentation

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