Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol seeking a Technical Lead Manager for its platform engineering team. The role involves building and leading the team, owning the infrastructure roadmap, and ensuring high reliability and security standards.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the platform engineering team, owning hiring, performance, and career growth to scale the team for a growing engineering org while holding a high technical and culture bar
- Own the infrastructure roadmap and technical strategy, turning product and business needs into a prioritized backlog and documented architecture decisions that balance speed, cost, and reliability
- Accelerate engineering velocity by driving self-service infrastructure, CI/CD optimization for the monorepo, and developer tooling that cuts deployment time to minutes
- Raise the reliability and security bar with zero-trust IAM, observability across tier-1 services, proactive alerting, and blameless incident and post-mortem practices, working toward multi-region readiness and institutional-grade SLOs
- Partner with product, protocol, and business teams to represent platform engineering in planning, translate infrastructure trade-offs into business impact, and keep the platform enabling rather than gating product delivery
- Set the engineering culture by example through clear architecture docs, infrastructure-as-code standards, and mentorship that helps engineers grow and ship with confidence
Skills
- 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, including 3+ years managing engineering teams
- Track record building and scaling production infrastructure from startup to enterprise scale, owning reliability and developer-experience outcomes
- Experience leading platform or infrastructure transformations that measurably improved developer velocity and reliability, with concrete metrics
- Deep technical fluency in event-driven architectures, Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on enough to review architecture, guide technical calls, and join incident response, while leading management-first
- Strong cross-functional leadership: influences decisions across product, protocol, and business teams without direct authority
- Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet
- Clear, crisp async communication through RFCs, runbooks, and incident reviews
- High ownership and autonomy with a team-first, low-ego mindset
- Genuine curiosity about crypto and DeFi
Benefits
- Real flexibility
- Time together in Paris
- Great health coverage
- Support to keep learning
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