Technical Lead - Infrastructure

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
200K-240K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Role
Leads a small infrastructure engineering team while remaining hands-on with DevOps and SRE work. Responsibilities include operating and securing Kubernetes environments, managing AWS infrastructure, automation, incident response, on-call leadership, infrastructure roadmap planning, reliability KPIs, cloud cost optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also includes coaching engineers, hiring, performance management, documentation, and delivering infrastructure initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

This role will require being full-time onsite at our New York City or Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving. You will participate in an on-call rotation covering 8:00am–4:00pm ET.

This is a player-coach role: you'll lead a small team of infrastructure engineers while staying hands-on in the engineering work itself. You'll be an extra set of hands on your team's projects, take on smaller initiatives yourself so the team can stay focused on roadmap work, and help build, shape, and execute our infrastructure roadmap. Expect to spend roughly 60% of your time on hands-on engineering and 40% on leading the team.

What you'll doLead the team
  • Lead and develop a small team of talented infrastructure engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and career development
  • Help shape a team culture of open communication, craftsmanship, and ownership
  • Take direct responsibility for the quality and delivery of the team's work
  • Participate in hiring and growing the team
  • Protect the team's focus by triaging incoming requests and unplanned work, so engineers can stay on roadmap priorities
Stay hands-on
  • Be an extra set of hands on your team's projects: pair on hard problems, unblock work, review designs and code, and pick up pieces of larger efforts when it helps the team move faster
  • Own and deliver smaller infrastructure initiatives end to end
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotation (8:00am–4:00pm ET), act as a technical leader during production incidents, and drive postmortems and follow-up work
  • Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and engineering best practices, leading by example
Shape the roadmap
  • Partner with the Head of Infrastructure to build, shape, and execute the infrastructure roadmap
  • Translate long-term goals into concrete, shippable milestones, and plan, estimate, and make tradeoffs with your team
  • Own and be accountable for KPIs covering the reliability, resiliency, and uptime of critical services
  • Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to identify infrastructure requirements, risks, and opportunities, including cloud cost optimization
  • Facilitate thorough documentation and knowledge sharing
What we're looking for

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship.

Required
  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, building and operating complex, high-stakes production systems
  • 2+ years leading a team of engineers, including people leadership responsibilities such as 1:1s, feedback, and performance conversations
  • A track record of balancing hands-on technical work with team leadership
  • Extensive experience securing, scaling, and operating Kubernetes in production, with associated tooling (ArgoCD, GitOps, Grafana) and advanced Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with a major public cloud provider. We operate primarily on AWS but believe skills in one cloud provider translate to others
  • Strong Linux systems administration skills and networking fundamentals (VPCs, security groups, load balancers, CNI plugins, network policy management)
  • Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, preferably Go, with strong bash scripting
  • Operational experience with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience participating in and organizing on-call rotations, and leading incident response
  • Strong project management skills and experience collaborating across teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
  • Security operations experience, including vulnerability management, security monitoring, and incident response
  • Experience with compliance frameworks and audit lifecycles (SOC, ISO, regulators, etc.)
  • Cloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience
  • Deep observability experience (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, ELK)
  • Experience sourcing and hiring engineering talent
  • A history of delivering internal tools or automation that improved developer or operator workflows
  • Blockchain/crypto infrastructure experience, such as running nodes and validators
  • Prior experience in financial services or regulated industries

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem-solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

  • Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
  • 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
  • Up to 4% 401k company match
  • Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
  • Free commuter/parking pass
  • Free custom lunches and snacks
  • Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
  • Great colleagues and an inspiring environment

Benefits may vary based on location.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $200,000 and $240,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

Skills Required

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering operating complex production systems
  • 2+ years leading an engineering team with people-management responsibilities
  • Experience balancing hands-on technical work with team leadership
  • Extensive production Kubernetes experience, including ArgoCD, GitOps, Grafana, and advanced Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with a major public cloud provider, preferably AWS
  • Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals
  • Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, preferably Go, and strong Bash scripting
  • Operational experience with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience participating in and organizing on-call rotations and leading incident response
  • Strong project management and cross-team collaboration skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Security operations experience, including vulnerability management, security monitoring, and incident response
  • Experience with compliance frameworks and audit lifecycles, including SOC, ISO, or regulatory frameworks
  • Cloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience
  • Deep observability experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, or ELK
  • Experience sourcing and hiring engineering talent
  • Experience delivering internal tools or automation improving developer or operator workflows
  • Blockchain or cryptocurrency infrastructure experience, such as running nodes and validators
  • Prior financial services or regulated-industry experience
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
293 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors and crypto platforms with liquidity, custody, and security. In 2020, the company reached new milestones with the launch of BitGo Prime, the first and only deeply integrated, full-stack solution with custody, trading and lending. With the launch of BitGo Portfolio and BitGo Tax, the company also manages activities across wallets, exchanges and service providers. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes over 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 250 coins and tokens. BitGo’s customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries, including qualified custodial entities in Switzerland and Germany. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

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