Ethena Labs
Finance • Fintech • Web 3
Ethena Labs is a company focused on creating synthetic financial products, such as a Synthetic Dollar with Internet Native Yield (sUSDe). Ethena Labs aims to provide innovative financial solutions with transparency, leveraging blockchain technology. It is backed by a robust community and operates within a decentralized financial ecosystem.
Head of Platform Engineering
Job not on LinkedIn
October 22
Ethena Labs
Finance • Fintech • Web 3
Ethena Labs is a company focused on creating synthetic financial products, such as a Synthetic Dollar with Internet Native Yield (sUSDe). Ethena Labs aims to provide innovative financial solutions with transparency, leveraging blockchain technology. It is backed by a robust community and operates within a decentralized financial ecosystem.
📋 Description
• Spearhead the evolution of a scalable, secure, and high-performing platform. • Lead a lean team of 1-2 Senior/Intermediate DevOps Engineers and take full ownership of the platform strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives. • Remain hands-on, contributing as a staff/principal-level engineer to write code, design architecture, and solve complex technical challenges. • Collaborate closely with engineering leads and senior peers across the company to advance strategic priorities, enable business growth, and deliver measurable value. • Advance infrastructure, proactively eliminate bottlenecks, and cultivate a world-class DevOps culture.
🎯 Requirements
• Extensive experience in platform engineering, with hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and monitoring systems (Prometheus, Datadog). You’re comfortable contributing technically while leading the team. • A proven ability to identify and resolve infrastructure gaps independently, anticipate challenges, and drive impactful improvements with ownership and urgency. • A track record of delivering complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects on time, with strong prioritization, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration skills. • The ability to craft and execute long-term platform strategies that align with business goals, enabling scalable growth, reducing technical debt, and adding value to the organization. • Experience mentoring and scaling high-performing DevOps teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical growth, and continuous improvement. • Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, align teams around shared goals, and drive consensus across engineering and product groups. • Experience in the cryptocurrency and centralized exchange (CEX) trading space, with a proven track record of building highly available, resilient services and architectures using tools like Kubernetes to support low-latency, high-throughput systems. Experience with trading systems is a bonus. • Proven ability to partner with engineering leads and senior peers to align platform initiatives with company priorities, driving innovation, enabling new business opportunities, and delivering measurable value to support growth. • Thrives in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment, with a bias for action, adaptability, and a relentless focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
🏖️ Benefits
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment with established opportunities for personal growth and learning.
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