Director of Engineering, Platform

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 that scaled Coinbase Custody to $100M+ in ARR and secured more than $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.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering organization, the team responsible for the infrastructure that powers and scales Turnkey's core product. This is a senior leadership role reporting to CTO/Co-Founder Jack Kearney, owning both the technical direction and the people leadership of the org. If you're excited about the potential that web3 has to radically change the world for the better and have a sincere desire to help facilitate that change, join us as we redefine decentralized development.

Strategic Vision and Leadership

Own the engineering strategy and technical vision for Turnkey's Platform Engineering organization, spanning infrastructure, reliability and performance, releases and internal tooling.

Build, manage, and grow a high-performing engineering org, including hiring and developing engineering managers and senior ICs

Partner closely with Product Engineering and company leadership to ensure platform investments align with customer and business needs

Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, and guide their integration into our platform

Contribute to company-wide strategic planning and technical decision-making as a member of the engineering leadership team

Organizational & People Leadership

Define and evolve the org structure, leveling, and career paths for the Platform Engineering team as it scales

Drive recruitment, onboarding, and retention of top infrastructure and security-minded engineering talent

Set and uphold engineering rituals (on-call, incident review, capacity planning, etc.) that keep the org resilient and accountable

Coach and develop managers and senior engineers, building a durable leadership bench

Architectural Oversight & Technical Direction

Provide strategic technical guidance across foundational systems, ensuring intelligent architectural decisions that support long-term scalability, security, and reliability

Oversee the design and implementation of our cloud and network infrastructure, company-wide security architecture and controls, and the operational tooling and practices that keep production systems healthy.

Ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of infrastructure, addressing the complexities of distributed systems and adversarial threat models

Define and drive processes; security reviews, capacity planning, testing, incident response, that ensure quality and consistency across infrastructure development

Proven experience managing engineering managers and/or leading a multi-team engineering org (not just individual teams)

Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and security architecture, with the ability to lead in-depth technical discussions and make final calls on tradeoffs

A track record of operating and scaling infrastructure that demands high availability, performance, and a strong security posture

Excellence at holding a high bar on software quality and engineering process, even while moving fast

A healthy amount of paranoia :-)

Prior experience working in fast-paced crypto/web3 and/or FinTech companies, especially with exposure to security-critical infrastructure

Experience scaling an infrastructure org through a significant growth stage (e.g., Series B → C, or comparable)

Actively tracking developments in the crypto ecosystem and opinionated on where it's going