Senior Platform Engineer
"What You'll Be Doing"
About This Role
You'll join a small platform team that works with nearly every engineering team at Turnkey. Your job is to help the whole organization build faster, scale more confidently, and make better decisions through the tooling you build, the practices you establish, and the systemic problems you find and fix before they become incidents. You'll work independently across product and infrastructure teams on scaling and performance, gathering requirements and constraints from each team and turning them into shared solutions. This role suits someone who has lived through what breaks as a company scales from 1 to 10, and who gets energy from stepping outside their own domain to solve problems wherever they sit.
What You'll Be Doing
Build tooling for performance analysis and observability so teams can see how their systems behave and make decisions from data rather than intuition
Partner with product, infrastructure, and security teams to understand their requirements and constraints, translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders, and build shared understanding of priorities
Identify systemic issues across infrastructure and product, and drive them to resolution
Anticipate scaling bottlenecks and take systems from one scale to another (e.g., throughput, latency, or tenant count targets) before they become incidents
Level up other teams by introducing better tooling and practices, helping them build habits around measurement, SLOs, and data-driven decisions
Translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders and build shared understanding of priorities
Raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and mentorship
What We're Looking For
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 (metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, alerting, or similar)
A data-driven approach: defining metrics, instrumenting systems, and being able to tell the story of how a system or team moved from one scale to another
A record of leveling up teams beyond your own, through tooling, practices, or decision-making habits
Clear communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to step outside your own domain to understand how other teams work and what they need
Bonus Points
Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or similar)
Experience in security-sensitive or high-assurance environments (TEEs, secure enclaves, key management, regulated infrastructure)
Fluency in Go
Experience with incident management and post-incident learning programs
Open source contributions or public technical writing
Why Join Us
Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA/FSA, and 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
Compensation range: $180,000–$250,000 USD
Salary Range
USD 180,000 - 250,000 per year
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Turnkey's official website and follow their application process.