Senior Platform Engineer - Remote, Observability & Scale

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

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