Director of Engineering

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit 

This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a large, strategic organization composed of multiple engineering teams and managers, ensuring a clear impact on the success of BitGo.
• Own the success of the Infrastructure department, making decisions that consistently drive the achievement of departmental and company OKRs.
• Be accountable for the overall technical integrity, operational health, and fiscal responsibility of our core infrastructure. This includes upholding a high technical bar while making pragmatic, data-driven decisions on budget and resource allocation.
• Ensure the organization is resilient, responsive, and able to quickly address changing business conditions or critical production issues.
• Collaborate effectively with senior leaders across engineering, product, security, and finance to break down organizational silos and align the infrastructure roadmap with business priorities.
• Define and communicate a multi-year technical vision and strategy for Infrastructure that aligns with BitGo's ambitious growth plans in the crypto fintech space.

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for leaders who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for individuals who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets. 

Required

• 10+ years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability role
• 4+ years of experience successfully leading geographically distributed teams of 4+ engineers
• Hands-on experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes workloads in production environments
• Strong experience working with CI/CD tooling
• Strong familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki and ELK
• Strong desire to automate where possible
• Experience in participating in and organizing on-call rotations
• Proven experience sourcing and hiring top engineering talent
• Experience working in a cross-team environment, collaborating with and enabling other functions to drive broader departmental goals
• A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
• Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world's financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:

• Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
• 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
• 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave, paid vacation
• Free commute and parking pass; 5 min from Caltrain
• Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks 
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
• Benefits vary based on location

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $260,000 - $320,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.