Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Become a member of a compact platform team collaborating with nearly all engineering teams at Turnkey.

• Develop tools for performance evaluation and observability to enable teams to make informed, data-driven choices.

• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security teams to gather requirements, interpret technical trade-offs, and create shared solutions.

• Identify systemic challenges within infrastructure and product and facilitate their resolution.

• Anticipate scaling challenges and enhance systems proactively to prevent incidents.

• Implement improved tools and practices for measurement, SLOs, and data-driven decision-making.

• Elevate the technical standards through design evaluations, documentation, and mentorship.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or SRE, with significant experience in distributed systems.

• Proven experience in designing, building, scaling, and managing robust and reliable distributed systems in a production environment.

• Proficiency in Golang, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes.

• Experience in creating tools for performance and observability, encompassing metrics, tracing, profiling, logging, alerting, or similar aspects.

• Data-driven mindset: establish metrics, instrument systems, and articulate how a system or team transitioned from X to Y.

• History of enhancing teams beyond your own through tools, practices, or decision-making methodologies.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A keen intellectual curiosity and a desire to comprehend how other teams operate and what they require.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or comparable technologies.

• Familiarity with security-sensitive or high-assurance environments, including TEEs, secure enclaves, key management, or regulated infrastructures.

• Proficiency in Go.

• Experience with incident management and post-incident review processes.

• Contributions to open-source projects or public technical writing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, HSA/FSA, and 401(k).

• Paid parental leave.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Annual budget of $3,000 for learning and development to attend industry conferences.

• Multiple team offsite events each year.

• Lunch stipend.