ava-labs - Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform

Remote - (Global)1w ago

Remote Staff WW Cryptocurrency Engineering Manager Platform Engineer Kubernetes Governance

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ leading teams shipping production-scale secure distributed systems • Track record owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architecture through production • Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key management: MPC, threshold signatures, TEEs, HSMs • Experience building cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability) with security and resilience as first-order concerns • Fluency in the compliance frameworks for regulated finance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, AML/KYC, and awareness of the SEC/CFTC/OCC/MiCA landscape • Experience across digital asset infrastructure: custody, trading, staking, treasury, and blockchain settlement • Ability to communicate credibly with executives, institutional customers, auditors, and regulators • Experience scaling an org toward a chartered or licensed financial entity • (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.) • Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams delivering Fortary's custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations • Own the architecture and roadmap for the distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, and transaction policy controls • Partner with Product, Security, BD, and executives to prioritize investments against customer, regulatory, and business needs • Support multiple deployment models: managed platform and licensed software • Ensure engineering practices meet the security, compliance, and governance bar required as Fortary moves toward chartered-institution status • Lead incident response for outages, security events, and key management scenarios • Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers • Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the org

Benefits

• If you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others.