Senior Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Platform Engineer building performance, observability, and scaling infrastructure for Turnkey’s autonomous-economy platform. Partnering across engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams.

Responsibilities

  • Join a small platform team working with nearly every engineering team at Turnkey
  • Build tooling for performance analysis and observability so teams can make data-driven decisions
  • Partner with product, infrastructure, and security teams to gather requirements, translate technical tradeoffs, and develop shared solutions
  • Identify systemic issues across infrastructure and product and drive them to resolution
  • Anticipate scaling bottlenecks and scale systems before they become incidents
  • Introduce better tooling and practices around measurement, SLOs, and data-driven decisions
  • Raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and mentorship

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or SRE, with substantial distributed systems experience
  • Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating robust, reliable distributed systems in production
  • Working experience with Golang, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes
  • Experience building tooling for performance and observability, including metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, alerting, or similar
  • Data-driven approach: define metrics, instrument systems, and explain how a system or team moved from X to Y
  • Record of leveling up teams beyond your own through tooling, practices, or decision-making habits
  • Clear communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Intellectual curiosity and willingness to understand how other teams work and what they need
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience, such as Terraform or similar
  • Experience in security-sensitive or high-assurance environments, including TEEs, secure enclaves, key management, or regulated infrastructure
  • Fluency in Go
  • Experience with incident management and post-incident learning programs
  • Open source contributions or public technical writing

Benefits

  • Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA/FSA, 401(k)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • $3,000/yr learning and development budget to attend industry conferences
  • Multiple team offsites per year
  • Lunch stipend

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$180,000 - $250,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSDistributed SystemsKubernetesOpen SourcePostgresTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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