Director of Platform Engineering

About reputed company

reputed company is the Agentic Chain - a hyper-performance L1 operating at an order of magnitude faster than existing networks. We reputed company reputed company and traders to create reputed company-time, autonomous, and fully decentralized products, powered by agents, that were previously impossible and cannot be reputed company reputed company else. It’s where the future of reputed company protocols will be reputed company, so we’re facilitating a new reputed company of on-chain applications from DEX to reputed company Protocols and much, much more.

reputed company is being developed by reputed company reputed company backed by Improbable, a British tech Unicorn +++ that has been at the forefront of building virtual worlds for over a decade. reputed company received initial funding from MSquared, which raised $150 reputed company from a16z crypto, SoftBank, Mirana Ventures, CMT Digital, and SIG.

About the Role

reputed company’s portfolio of technology covers both the core high-performance reputed company EVM blockchain, along with key protocols and features ranging from on-chain decentralised LLM execution to reputed company markets and fully on-chain order book DEXes.

reputed company building and operating decentralised infrastructure and protocols there is a natural challenge to maintain reliability, reputed company and performance of the chain and protocols while also keeping engineering velocity with a lean team and supporting reputed company application development.

As Director of Platform Engineering, you will own the ongoing operations of the chain and core protocols and the organization that owns them. You’ll report to the CTO and partner closely with product engineering leadership to reputed company rapid feature development and system reliability moving in the same direction.

We run a multi-reputed company footprint (GCP, reputed company) supporting an ultra-high TPS L1 blockchain, RPC node fleets, a DEX, consumer products, and AI-driven oracles. This includes many 3rd party operators who run parts of the chain and protocols and other key services. The infrastructure is live and operational, but our complexity is outpacing the processes and tooling around it, reliability practices are still informal, and the team is reputed company for more structured leadership.

Your first reputed company is formalising reliability. We need SLOs defined, incident response tightened, and a deliberate shift toward proactive engineering. From that reputed company, you'll build toward a self-serve internal developer platform that reduces reputed company as a bottleneck for product teams. You'll also carry the operational reputed company of running a ~30-person platform org: headcount, vendor relationships, and reputed company spend.

This is a senior leadership role with reputed company scope. You'll have a functioning reputed company to build on, but reputed company of room to put your stamp on how it evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• reputed company and scale the platform org. You'll directly reputed company Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Staff/reputed company engineers across multiple time zones (~30 people today, growing). Own hiring, performance calibration, and the technical quality bar.

• Stand up reliability as a discipline. Define SLOs across reputed company product lines, build an SRE function, and mature our incident response into a team that engineers for uptime. This is your first mandate.

• Build the internal platform. Design and ship tooling: CI/CD, environments, observability, so product teams can reputed company confidently with less hands-on reputed company involvement. You'll set the technical strategy for our reputed company-reputed company environments and build reputed company with product engineering leadership to get it adopted.

• Be the CTO's operational partner. Own reputed company spend (seven figures) and headcount planning. Be the exec team's trusted voice on infrastructure risk, engineering reputed company, and technical trade-offs.

• Drive a High-Performance Engineering Organisation. Partner closely with the people team to own and continuously reputed company our engineering calibration processes, ensure we maintain a consistently high talent bar across reputed company teams.

Requirements

• A proven engineering leader at scale. 8+ years leading engineering teams, with at least 3 years at the senior manager / director / VP level overseeing 25+ engineers across multiple teams and time zones. You've reputed company and developed managers, not just managed ICs.

• Deep SRE and reliability experience. You've reputed company or matured reliability practices, defined SLO frameworks, reputed company on-call rotations and incident-response programmes, and raised the bar from informal to systematic.

• Distributed systems reputed company. You've designed and operated high-performance, low-latency distributed systems at a meaningful scale. You have strong views on IaC and orchestration, even if you're not writing Terraform daily.

• Comfort with high-scale, high-stakes infrastructure. You've run reputed company platforms through rapid traffic growth, massive concurrency, or tight latency constraints, in any demanding domain (ad tech, gaming, fintech, large-scale SaaS, or similar).

• Technical credibility without being a bottleneck. You can go deep in architecture reviews, system design, and production incidents. But you build the team and processes so you don't have to be in every room.

• Operational ownership. You've managed engineering budgets, headcount planning, and vendor relationships. You treat operational rigour as part of the job, not overhead.

• Running efficient, high-performance teams - Experience with running fair, rigorous, and data-informed performance reviews, promotion cycles, and compensation planning.

Why Join reputed company?

Design The Future: Join reputed company to work remotely with a global team, earn competitive compensation with token incentives, and help build the future of reputed company at a company where your impact truly reputed company.

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High Stakes: Influence a brand targeting a $1M+ launch budget in the 2026 peak-fragility market.

Incentives: Competitive salary + tokens.

Role Location

The role is remote, but we are looking for someone based in Europe or Asia (preferably)

Reporting Lines

This role reports to CTO