Senior Platform Engineer

turnkeycareers; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

HSA/FSA

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Learning & conference budget

Team offsites

Lunch stipend

Job summary

turnkeycareers is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a small platform engineering team. You will build tools for performance analysis and observability, work across product, infrastructure, and security to diagnose issues and guide scaling, and mentor other teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform engineering, experience with Go, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and a data-driven approach. You will partner with engineers to turn needs into solutions and help teams improve instrumentation

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, with distributed-systems work.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating reliable production systems.
• Clear communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Build tools for performance analysis and observability, such as metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, and alerting.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand constraints and turn shared needs into platform solutions.
• Identify cross-system reliability or scaling problems and drive them through to resolution.
• Plan for growth in throughput, latency, or tenant volume, using measurements to guide decisions.
• Help teams adopt stronger practices for instrumentation, service-level objectives, and data-informed decisions.
• Contribute to design reviews, documentation, and mentoring.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance analysis

Instrumentation

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Go

AWS

Postgres

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

Join a small platform engineering team that helps engineering groups build, scale, and operate services more effectively. You’ll work across product, infrastructure, and security domains to diagnose systemic issues, improve performance and observability, and address scaling risks before they become incidents. The role combines hands-on systems work with technical guidance and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build tools for performance analysis and observability, such as metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, and alerting.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand constraints and turn shared needs into platform solutions.
• Identify cross-system reliability or scaling problems and drive them through to resolution.
• Plan for growth in throughput, latency, or tenant volume, using measurements to guide decisions.
• Help teams adopt stronger practices for instrumentation, service-level objectives, and data-informed decisions.
• Contribute to design reviews, documentation, and mentoring.

Requirements

• At least five years in platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, including substantial distributed-systems work.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating reliable production systems.
• Working experience with Go, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes.
• Experience creating performance or observability tools.
• A data-driven approach: define useful measures, instrument systems, and explain improvements with evidence.
• Clear communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform.
• Background in security-sensitive environments, secure enclaves, key management, or regulated infrastructure.
• Incident management and post-incident learning experience, open-source contributions, or technical writing.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role for candidates based in the United States or Canada.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, HSA/FSA, a 401(k), and paid parental leave.
• Also listed: unlimited paid time off, a $3,000 annual learning and conference budget, team offsites, and a lunch stipend.