A company in Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

Head of Platform Engineering

Job Details

As the Head of Platform Engineering, you’ll spearhead the evolution of our scalable, secure, and high-performing platform, driving the infrastructure that fuels our fast-paced startup. Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll lead a lean team of 1-2 Senior/Intermediate DevOps Engineers and take full ownership of our platform strategy, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and empowers engineering teams.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do Champion Infrastructure Reliability: Conduct gap analyses to strengthen infrastructure, maintain exceptional uptime for critical systems (e.g., APIs, databases), and enhance monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog) to ensure rapid incident detection and resolution. Lead Strategic Initiatives: Own high-priority infrastructure projects, defining clear roadmaps and fostering accountability to deliver outcomes that drive business success and enable company growth. Shape Platform Strategy: Develop and execute a forward-thinking infrastructure strategy, leveraging tools like Terraform and Kubernetes to optimize deployments, streamline operations, and support business expansion. Hands-On Technical Leadership: Actively contribute as a staff/principal-level engineer, writing high-quality code, designing robust architectures, and solving complex technical problems to set a high standard for the team. Build a High-Performing Team: Mentor and develop your team, recruit top talent, and foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, guided by meaningful performance metrics. Drive Security and Compliance: Implement robust security practices (e.g., zero-trust models, DevSecOps) and ensure compliance with standards like SOC 2 and GDPR, maintaining a secure and compliant platform that supports business trust and growth. Enhance Developer Experience: Optimize deployment pipelines to support frequent, reliable production releases and empower developers with self-service tools and standardized environments to maximize productivity and accelerate feature delivery. Promote Cost Efficiency: Implement FinOps practices and tools like AWS Cost Explorer to optimize resource allocation, balancing cost, performance, and scalability, particularly during peak crypto transaction volumes, to support financial growth. Strengthen Incident Management: Enhance incident response and recovery processes, ensuring robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans for seamless operations and business reliability. Collaborate for Impact: Partner with engineering leads and senior peers to align platform initiatives with company priorities, driving innovation, enabling new business opportunities, and adding measurable value to fuel growth.

Perks

$100k – $200k
Extensive experience in platform engineering, with hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and monitoring systems (Prometheus, Datadog).

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