Senior Platform Engineer: Automations, Observability & Scale

Turo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

Retirement match

Learning & Development stipend

Travel credit

Phone & internet stipend

Paid time off

Paid holidays & volunteer time off

Parental leave

In-office lunch & snacks

Job summary

Turo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering group in San Francisco. You will help build and improve foundational backend systems, shared services, and internal tooling that empower engineering teams across the company.

You will focus on production readiness, observability, and platform automation, collaborating with Backend Platform and product engineering to raise reliability and developer velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, backend/platform focus.
• Strong programming in Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Distributed systems, APIs, production operations understanding.
• Experience in cloud-native environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Observability, logging, monitoring, CI/CD, incident response tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platform tooling, automation, and services.
• Operate foundational backend systems and shared services.
• Improve observability and production diagnostics across services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address platform gaps and scalability.
• Write clean, tested code and participate in code reviews and design discussions.

Skills

Backend systems

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Security

AI-assisted workflows

Education

Bachelors/Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka/MSK

Job description

Turo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering group in San Francisco. You will help build and improve foundational backend systems, shared services, and internal tooling that empower engineering teams across the company.

You will focus on production readiness, observability, and platform automation, collaborating with Backend Platform and product engineering to raise reliability and developer velocity.