Senior Platform Engineer — Scale, Observability & Security

Turnkey; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision + life/disabil

HSA/FSA plan

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Learning & development budget

Offsites

Lunch stipend

Job summary

Turnkey is building the infrastructure for an autonomous economy and is hiring a Platform Engineer to help the entire organization move faster, scale confidently, and make data-driven decisions. You will build tooling, drive systemic improvements, and partner across product, infra, and security teams to translate tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders.

You will tackle scaling bottlenecks, guide others with better tooling and practices, and mentor teams while raising the technical bar through

Qualifications

• 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 (metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, alerting, or similar)
• A data-driven approach: you define the metrics, instrument the system, and can tell the story of how a system or team moved from X to Y
• A record of leveling up teams beyond your own, through tooling, practices, or decision-making habits
• Clear communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to step outside your own domain to understand how other teams work and what they need

Responsibilities

• Build tooling for performance analysis and observability so teams can see how their systems behave and decide from data rather than intuition
• Partner with product, infrastructure, and security teams to understand their requirements and constraints, translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders, and build shared understanding of priorities to develop solutions that work across team boundaries
• Identify systemic issues across infrastructure and product, and drive them to resolution
• Anticipate scaling bottlenecks and take systems from X to Y scale (e.g., throughput / latency / tenant count targets) before they become incidents
• Level up other teams by introducing better tooling and practices and helping them build habits around measurement, SLOs, and data-driven decisions
• Translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders and build shared understanding of priorities
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and mentorship

Skills

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Data-driven mindset

Cross-team collaboration

Clear communication

Tools

Go (Golang)

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Turnkey is building the infrastructure for an autonomous economy and is hiring a Platform Engineer to help the entire organization move faster, scale confidently, and make data-driven decisions. You will build tooling, drive systemic improvements, and partner across product, infra, and security teams to translate tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders.

You will tackle scaling bottlenecks, guide others with better tooling and practices, and mentor teams while raising the technical bar through