Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will join a small platform team to build tooling, establish practices, and solve systemic problems. You will work across product and infrastructure teams on scaling and performance.

What you will do

• Build tooling for performance analysis and observability
• Partner with product, infrastructure, and security teams to understand requirements
• Translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders
• Identify systemic issues across infrastructure and product and drive them to resolution
• Anticipate scaling bottlenecks and take systems from X to Y scale
• Level up other teams by introducing better tooling and practices
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and mentorship

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or SRE
• 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
• A data-driven approach
• A record of leveling up teams beyond your own
• Clear communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to step outside your own domain

Nice to have

• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or similar)
• Experience in security-sensitive or high-assurance environments (TEE’s, 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

Benefits

• 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

Before you apply

• Candidates must be physically based in the United States and Canada at the current time

About the company

Turnkey is building infrastructure for an autonomous economy through programmable guardrails. The team consists of experts in cryptography, security, and systems.