Technical Lead for Infrastructure

Open infrastructure for onchain loans. Connect to the most trusted lending network.

Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026

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About Morpho Labs

Morpho provides open infrastructure for onchain loans, allowing users to earn, borrow, curate, and build. Earn: Put your crypto to work by depositing to start earning. Morpho offers optimized vaults, tailored strategies based on risk level, and non-custodial smart contracts. Borrow: Provide collateral to borrow any asset with low costs, higher collateralization factors, per-market rates, and zero fees. For Curators & Businesses: - Curate: Earn fees for optimizing yield, risk, and liquidity by deploying open, customizable, and scalable vaults and markets. - Build: Build custom lending use cases with Morpho's efficient, flexible, and secure infrastructure, maintaining full ownership and control.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build and lead a platform engineering function while owning infrastructure strategy and execution. You will improve deployment workflows, reliability, security, observability, incident response, developer tooling, architecture standards, and engineer development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering
  • 3+ years managing engineering teams
  • Experience scaling production infrastructure from startup to enterprise scale
  • Experience improving developer velocity and reliability with measurable results
  • Fluency in event-driven architectures Kubernetes GitOps and cloud infrastructure
  • AWS experience preferred
  • Ability to review architecture guide technical decisions and join incident response
  • Strong cross-functional leadership
  • Comfort operating in fast-changing ambiguous environments
  • Clear async communication through RFCs runbooks and incident reviews
  • High ownership and autonomy
  • Team-first mindset and low ego
  • Curiosity about crypto and DeFi

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead the platform engineering team
  • Own the infrastructure roadmap and technical strategy
  • Drive self-service infrastructure CI/CD optimization and developer tooling
  • Implement zero-trust IAM observability proactive alerting and incident practices
  • Prepare tier-1 services for multi-region operation
  • Partner with product protocol and business functions on infrastructure planning
  • Set architecture documentation infrastructure-as-code and mentorship standards

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Time together in Paris
  • Health coverage
  • Learning support

Hiring Process

Process takes 3 to 6 weeks, depending on the position. 01. Interview with our Talent Lead. 02. Interview with your future manager. 03. Case Study. 04. Interview with a co-founder.