Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

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

## Senior Software Engineer, Platform EngineeringApply: San Francisco: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R-102729# **About the team** We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Backend Platform organization. In this role, you will build and improve the foundational systems, tooling, and platform capabilities that support engineering across the company. You will work on shared services, internal developer workflows, production readiness, observability, and platform automation that help teams build and operate software more effectively. This is a hands-on software engineering role for someone who enjoys solving systemic problems and building durable, scalable solutions. You will partner closely with teams across Backend Platform and product engineering to strengthen the reliability, maintainability, and usability of our platform.Success in this role will be measured by the impact, continuous improvement, and adoption of platform capabilities across engineering teams. # **What you will do*** Design, build, and maintain platform tooling, automation, and services that improve engineering efficiency, system reliability, and operational excellence.* Contribute to the design, operation, and evolution of foundational backend systems, shared services, and platform capabilities used by multiple teams.* Improve observability across backend services through better logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and production diagnostics.* Partner with product engineering, infrastructure, and other platform teams to identify platform gaps, operational bottlenecks, and scalability challenges, and deliver durable solutions.* Build and improve internal tools, workflows, and automation that support software development, testing, deployment, and service operations.* Support platform initiatives such as service hardening, migrations, modernization, and production readiness improvements.* Advocate for best practices in software quality, testing, deployment safety, observability, and infrastructure automation.* Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate actively in code reviews and technical design discussions. # **Your profile*** 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with meaningful experience in backend systems, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or developer tooling.* Strong programming experience in at least one backend language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.* Solid understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, APIs, and production operations.* Experience operating services in cloud-native environments, including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.* Hands-on experience with observability, reliability, and deployment tooling, including logging, monitoring, alerting, CI/CD systems, and incident response workflows.* Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and declarative tooling such as Terraform, Helm, or Kustomize.* Experience with platform security engineering, including Kubernetes security, container hardening, IAM, policy enforcement, or cloud security controls.* Experience using AI-assisted development workflows and tools to accelerate software delivery, improve code quality, and enhance debugging, testing, or operational efficiency.* Strong understanding of software testing practices, deployment safety, production readiness, and general platform engineering fundamentals.* Demonstrates Turo’s values through work product and within day-to-day team interactions.* Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and relevant industry experience.* Equivalent practical experience is also welcome. # **Bonus if you have*** Experience with incident management, postmortems, and reliability improvement efforts in production environments.* Experience operating high-availability systems or supporting zero-downtime migrations.* Familiarity with event-driven or asynchronous systems such as Kafka/MSK, Kinesis, or SQS.* Experience building internal tools, CLIs, GitHub Actions, or workflow automation used by other engineers.* Familiarity with platform security and cloud security tools such as Wiz, Semgrep.* Experience modernizing legacy backend systems or improving shared platform architecture at scale. For this role, the target base salary range in San Francisco is $156,000–$195,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market-based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits available for this role. **Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.** #LI-NR1#LI-Hybrid# **Turo Recruiting Scam Alert:***We’ve learned that there are scammers targeting job candidates by impersonating Turo and its employees. We ask candidates to be careful of fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity during their job search, especially if they’re contacted through unofficial channels (such as Instagram, Telegram, MS Teams, etc.). In general, Turo interacts with candidates through our* *Careers page* *and via turo.com email addresses, and we don’t ask candidates for sensitive financial or personal info or request money as part of the hiring process (so an application fee or equipment costs).* *If candidates are not sure whether they’re dealing with an impersonator, they can contact Turo’s Recruiting Team at* *[e-mail]*. *Candidates can also report suspicious activity to the* *FTC* *or other appropriate authorities.*# **Turo AI Policy:**Turo may use AI-enabled tools to support our recruiting operations, including gathering information from candidates, drafting communications, helping with interview note-taking and assessment, and so on. These tools only supplement our team; all decisions to advance or hire candidates are made by Turo employees. While we welcome candidates to use AI-enabled tools to help prepare for their interviews, the use of such tools, including any AI chatbots or note-takers, is not permitted during live interviews or technical assessments. We want to see how you consider and solve problems in real-time, so interviews and assessments are all you (unless we indicate otherwise and ask you specifically to use an AI-enabled tool to answer a question). If during the application process you require the use of an AI-enabled tool as a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please let us know at [e-mail].# # **Benefits*** Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees* Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)* Retirement employer match* Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development* Turo host matching program* Turo travel credit* Cell phone and internet stipend* Paid time off to relax and recharge* Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave* For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activitiesWe are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us! Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.