Senior Platform Engineer

Turnkey

. Join a small platform team working with nearly every engineering team at Turnkey .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaSenior💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and scaling robust distributed systems, with a strong focus on performance analysis, observability, and data-driven decision-making. Proven ability to collaborate across teams and elevate technical standards through mentorship and tooling.

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Platform EngineeringDistributed Systems ExperienceGolangAWSKubernetes

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Hard Skills

Performance AnalysisObservability ToolingInfrastructure-as-CodeIncident ManagementMetrics DefinitionSystem InstrumentationData-Driven Decision MakingDesigning Distributed SystemsBuilding Reliable SystemsScaling Systems

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaborationIntellectual Curiosity

Tools & Technologies

PostgresTerraformLoggingTracingProfilingAlerting

Industry Keywords

Security-Sensitive EnvironmentsHigh-Assurance EnvironmentsRegulated InfrastructureTechnical TradeoffsMentorship

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKubernetesOpen SourcePostgresTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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