Platform Engineering Director — Scale, Security & Infra

Turnkey; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Learning and development budget

Team offsites

Job summary

Turnkey is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead Platform Engineering, owning technical direction and people leadership for a senior org reporting to the CTO. You will drive strategy, build a scalable, secure infrastructure, and align platform investments with business goals in a fast-moving crypto/web3 environment.

Leading multi-team engineers, you’ll champion reliability, performance, and security while shaping career paths and engineering rituals across the org.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-team engineering org is required.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Proven ability to balance security with scale and performance.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering strategy and technical vision for Platform Engineering.
• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization.
• Partner with Product Engineering and leadership to align platform investments with business needs.
• Guide integration of emerging technologies into the platform.
• Contribute to strategic planning and technical decision-making as part of the LT.”],
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Skills

Engineering management

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Security architecture

Job description

Turnkey is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead Platform Engineering, owning technical direction and people leadership for a senior org reporting to the CTO. You will drive strategy, build a scalable, secure infrastructure, and align platform investments with business goals in a fast-moving crypto/web3 environment.

Leading multi-team engineers, you’ll champion reliability, performance, and security while shaping career paths and engineering rituals across the org.