Senior Engineering Manager Fortary Platform

Ava Labs is a for-profit blockchain technology company that develops and supports Avalanche-based infrastructure, applications, and custom blockchains. It serves organizations, developers, enterprises, partners, and the broader Web3 community.

Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026

New York, USA
About Ava Labs, Inc.

Ava Labs develops software and services for the Avalanche ecosystem, including support for smart contracts, decentralized applications, subnets, APIs, bridges, wallet software, staking, and node operation. Its website highlights Avalanche, AvaCloud, and Core, and describes AvaCloud as a managed service for launching custom blockchains. The company works with organizations seeking scalable blockchain solutions for business, finance, and other real-world applications, while also supporting developers, ecosystem projects, universities, and community participants.

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Skills

About the Role

You will lead engineering delivery for custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations. You will own the architecture and roadmap of a distributed MPC custody platform, support managed and licensed deployments, guide security and compliance practices, lead incident response, and hire and develop engineering leaders and senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years leading teams shipping secure distributed systems
  • Large-scale security-critical platform ownership
  • MPC expertise
  • Threshold signature expertise
  • TEE expertise
  • HSM expertise
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience
  • CI/CD experience
  • Observability experience
  • SOC 2 knowledge
  • ISO 27001 knowledge
  • NIST knowledge
  • AML/KYC knowledge
  • Digital asset infrastructure experience
  • Executive and institutional customer communication experience

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams delivering custody and wallet infrastructure
  • Own the distributed MPC custody platform architecture
  • Define the technical roadmap
  • Partner with product, security, business development, and executives
  • Support managed and licensed deployment models
  • Maintain security, compliance, and governance standards
  • Lead incident response
  • Hire and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers
  • Drive AI-assisted engineering adoption

Benefits

  • Token package
  • Equity package