LocationParis or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).
RoleThis role exists to build and lead Morpho's platform engineering team: own the infrastructure roadmap end-to-end, raise reliability to institutional standards, and grow the engineers behind it.
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.
What Success Looks LikeFirst 30 daysBuild deep context on Morpho's on-chain deployment patterns, core services, and infrastructure pain points. Publish an initial platform strategy and 90-day roadmap, start 1:1s with the team, and take over weekly incident reviews and architecture forums.
First 3 monthsHave the platform team staffed against current priorities with a clear pipeline for open roles. Ship a self-service deployment pipeline with automated rollbacks for at least one tier-1 service, and stand up observability with proactive alerting and defined SLOs.
Must Have Skills & Experience- 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.
Perks & BenefitsWe design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.
