Head of Platform Engineering
Chronicle Protocol provides cost-efficient, verifiable, and decentralized blockchain oracles. It aims to solve issues of scalability, transparency, and implementation difficulty in traditional oracles by using a next-generation cryptographic primitive called Scribe. The protocol is blockchain-agnostic and is powered by a community of validator node operators including MakerDAO, Etherscan, and Gnosis.
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About Chronicle Labs
Chronicle Protocol is a decentralized oracle service designed to provide cost-efficient and verifiable data for blockchains. It addresses the limitations of traditional oracles by introducing Scribe, a cryptographic primitive that reduces gas fees significantly. The protocol emphasizes verifiability, allowing every piece of data to be tracked end-to-end via 'The Chronicle', its on-chain data record. Chronicle is blockchain-agnostic, deployable on both public and enterprise ledgers, and features a community-powered consensus network of 22 validators, including prominent entities like Infura, Etherscan, and MakerDAO. Originally developed in 2017 for MakerDAO to facilitate the creation of SAI (DAI's predecessor), it continues to be the exclusive oracle provider for MakerDAO, securing billions in assets and supporting its money markets.
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About the Role
You will provide hands-on technical and organizational leadership for platform engineering and DevOps. You will define infrastructure strategy, improve reliability and operational resilience, oversee cloud-native platforms, support compliance and audit readiness, and communicate risks and priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers in distributed organizations.
- Experience operating infrastructure subject to security, compliance, audit, or regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, financial services controls, or equivalent governance programs.
- Experience supporting audits, customer due diligence, vendor assessments, or institutional security reviews.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and Linux-based systems.
- Experience operating large-scale production systems with incident management, on-call, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, automation, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native technologies.
- Complete a KYC procedure to verify identity and location.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Platform Engineering and DevOps organization.
- Define infrastructure strategy, operational standards, ownership boundaries, and the platform roadmap.
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers.
- Own platform reliability, operational readiness, and service health.
- Establish reliability objectives, operational KPIs, and continuous-improvement practices.
- Build observability, incident management, on-call operations, and post-incident learning practices.
- Lead infrastructure readiness for ISO 27001, SOC 2, customer due diligence, and security reviews.
- Own infrastructure governance, operational controls, business continuity, and disaster recovery programs.
- Oversee cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code platforms.
- Improve engineering productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardization.
- Establish vendor management, risk assessment, capacity planning, and infrastructure economics practices.
- Oversee the reliability and scalability of oracle and blockchain infrastructure.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders on audits, institutional onboarding, and company-wide initiatives.
Benefits
- Equity participation
- Flexible payment options in USD, EUR, and USDC
- 6 weeks vacation
- Remote-first environment
- Flexible working schedule
- Annual company offsites
