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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Turnkey'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Turnkey

- **Company:** Turnkey
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$250k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turnkeycareers/jobs/4465190009

## Job description

## About Us

Machines will make decisions, move value, and coordinate on behalf of organizations, instantly, autonomously, and at unprecedented scale. But the systems that govern today’s economy weren’t designed for that world. Turnkey is building the infrastructure for this future: programmable guardrails that enable autonomy without sacrificing control.

Founded by the team who scaled Coinbase Custody to $100M+ ARR and secured over $100B in crypto assets, we know how to move at pace without ever compromising on security.

Our mission is to help the world operate an economy on autopilot, safely. We're low-ego, high-agency, and deeply technical. Our team consists of experts in cryptography, security, and systems who believe great infrastructure is invisible. We're building the trustless, programmable foundation for the autonomous economy, and we're hiring people who understand what that requires.

## Your role

You’ll join a small platform team that works with nearly every engineering team at Turnkey. Your job is to help the whole org build faster, scale more confidently, and make better decisions, through the tooling you build, the practices you establish, and the systemic problems you find and fix before they become incidents.

You’ll work independently across product and infrastructure teams on scaling and performance, gathering requirements and constraints from each team and turning them into shared solutions. This is a role for someone who has lived through what breaks between 1 and 10, and who gets energy from stepping outside their own domain to solve problems wherever they sit.

- 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

## What we’re looking for

- 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

Style points

- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or similar)
- Experience in security-sensitive or high-assurance environments (TEE’s, secure enclaves, key management, regulated infrastructure).
- Fluency in Go
- Experience with incident management and post-incident learning programs
- Open source contributions or public technical writing

## What We Offer

- Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA/FSA, 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- $3,000/yr learning and development budget to attend industry conferences
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Lunch stipend

Please note that while the team is remote, we are only considering candidates who are physically based in the United States and Canada at the current time.

Turnkey is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

## Compensation range

$180,000—$250,000 USD

## About Turnkey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto wallet infrastructure—including embedded wallets, transaction signing, and onchain automation—through a single API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $52.5M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (launched product 2023)
- **Founders**: Bryce Ferguson (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jack Kearney (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Crypto wallet infrastructure / private key management
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, fintechs, crypto exchanges, DeFi platforms, and enterprises building crypto‑native products
- **Mission**: To secure the open internet by building verifiable infrastructure that powers crypto for generations to come.

## Products & Services
- **Wallets & Signing** – Create, manage, and sign transactions from non‑custodial wallets with low latency (50–100ms) and 99.9% uptime.
- **Embedded Wallets** – Seamless, in‑app wallets that increase conversion rates.
- **Smart Wallet Signer** – Use Turnkey as the signing layer for smart contract wallets (account abstraction).
- **Transaction Management with Gas Sponsorship** – Production‑ready execution layer for building, sending, and tracking blockchain transactions, with optional fee sponsorship.
- **Onchain Automation** – Automate complex multi‑step crypto transactions at scale (millions in minutes).
- **Policy Engine** – Write granular policies for transaction limits, user permissions, and operational security.
- **Sessions** – Create user sessions to sign transactions without additional approvals, using familiar auth methods (OAuth, passkeys, email).
- **Turnkey Verifiable Cloud** (beta) – Brings verifiable execution to sensitive workloads.
- **Packaged solutions** (announced 2026): Agentic Wallets, Payment Orchestration, Smart Contract Management.

All products are delivered as an API or set of composable primitives, running inside Trusted Execution Environments (secure enclaves). SOC 2 Type II certified and audited by Trail of Bits, Zellic, and Cure53.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$52.5M**; surpassed **$100B in stablecoin volume** as of June 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Archetype.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **101.7% YoY** to 61 employees.
  - Trusted by Moonshot, Alchemy, Bridge, Magic Eden, Polymarket, Azura, Dynamic, Zora, Mysten Labs, Aptos, DIMO, Squads, Infinex, and others.
  - Expanded chain support (BNB Chain, Tempo) and launched new packaged solutions and Verifiable Cloud beta.
  - Named **Inc. Best Workplaces 2026** (people‑first culture recognized nationally).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team pedigree**: Founders and engineers built **Coinbase Custody**, the world’s largest crypto custodian, protecting $100B+.
- **Verifiable & open‑source**: Code can be independently verified, replacing blind trust with cryptographic proof.
- **Non‑custodial by design**: Users always retain full control of their private keys.
- **Hardware security**: All operations run inside secure enclaves (TEEs) with end‑to‑end encryption.
- **Chain‑agnostic**: Supports arbitrary signing for any blockchain or asset.
- **Performance**: Sub‑100ms signing latency and ability to sign millions of transactions in minutes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand verifiable computing** with the beta launch of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud.
- **Grow packaged workflows** (Agentic Wallets, Payment Orchestration, Smart Contract Management) to reduce implementation friction for enterprises.
- **Deepen institutional trust** via SOC 2, audits, and strategic investments from Circle Ventures and Archetype.
- **Scale hiring** across engineering, product, operations, and sales to support rapid customer growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Low‑ego, high‑slope, crypto‑native team. Everyone is a builder. Emphasis on ownership, low hierarchy, and minimal meetings.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Engineering is **remote‑first**; non‑technical roles are based in NYC with in‑person collaboration and regular offsites.
- **Recognition**: Inc. Best Workplaces 2026, reflecting a strong people‑first culture.
- **Team depth**: Over **100 years of combined experience** in cryptography, security, and low‑level systems. Many hires come from Coinbase, OP Labs, Consensys, and other crypto leaders.
- **Open roles**: Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Account Executive (remote), Business Operations (NYC), Sales Management (NYC) – as of July 2026.

## Sources
1. [Turnkey About Page](https://www.turnkey.com/about)
2. [Turnkey Homepage](https://www.turnkey.com/)
3. [Turnkey Blog – Inc. Best Workplace](https://www.turnkey.com/blog/turnkey-recognized-inc-best-workplace)
4. [Turnkey LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/turnkeyhq)
5. [Turnkey Careers on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turnkeycareers)

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