[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ava Labs is a pioneering company in the blockchain space, focused on redefining how people build and utilize decentralized applications. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering organization responsible for Fortary's institutional digital asset platform, overseeing architecture, technical strategy, and team growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams delivering Fortary's custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations
• Own the architecture and roadmap for the distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, and transaction policy controls
• Partner with Product, Security, BD, and executives to prioritize investments against customer, regulatory, and business needs
• Support multiple deployment models: managed platform and licensed software
• Ensure engineering practices meet the security, compliance, and governance bar required as Fortary moves toward chartered-institution status
• Lead incident response for outages, security events, and key management scenarios
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the org

Skills

• 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ leading teams shipping production-scale secure distributed systems
• Track record owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architecture through production
• Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key management: MPC, threshold signatures, TEEs, HSMs
• Experience building cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability) with security and resilience as first-order concerns
• Fluency in the compliance frameworks for regulated finance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, AML/KYC, and awareness of the SEC/CFTC/OCC/MiCA landscape
• Experience across digital asset infrastructure: custody, trading, staking, treasury, and blockchain settlement
• Ability to communicate credibly with executives, institutional customers, auditors, and regulators
• Experience scaling an org toward a chartered or licensed financial entity
• Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products

Company Overview

AVA is a blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://avalabs.org.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Ava Labs has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 3 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.