At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- New York
About the role
- BitGo is seeking a Technical Lead - Infrastructure to join the team in New York City or Toronto.
- This is a player-coach role requiring roughly 60% hands-on engineering and 40% team leadership.
- The role involves participating in an on-call rotation and helping build, shape, and execute the infrastructure roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a small team of talented infrastructure engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and career development
- Help shape a team culture of open communication, craftsmanship, and ownership
- Take direct responsibility for the quality and delivery of the team's work
- Participate in hiring and growing the team
- Protect the team's focus by triaging incoming requests and unplanned work, so engineers can stay on roadmap priorities
- Be an extra set of hands on your team's projects: pair on hard problems, unblock work, review designs and code, and pick up pieces of larger efforts when it helps the team move faster
- Own and deliver smaller infrastructure initiatives end to end
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation (8:00am–4:00pm ET), act as a technical leader during production incidents, and drive postmortems and follow-up work
- Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and engineering best practices, leading by example
- Partner with the Head of Infrastructure to build, shape, and execute the infrastructure roadmap
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, building and operating complex, high-stakes production systems
- 2+ years leading a team of engineers, including people leadership responsibilities such as 1:1s, feedback, and performance conversations
- A track record of balancing hands-on technical work with team leadership
- Extensive experience securing, scaling, and operating Kubernetes in production, with associated tooling (ArgoCD, GitOps, Grafana) and advanced Terraform
- Hands-on experience with a major public cloud provider
- Strong Linux systems administration skills and networking fundamentals (VPCs, security groups, load balancers, CNI plugins, network policy management)
- Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, preferably Go, with strong bash scripting
- Operational experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience participating in and organizing on-call rotations, and leading incident response
Preferred qualifications
- Security operations experience, including vulnerability management, security monitoring, and incident response
- Experience with compliance frameworks and audit lifecycles (SOC, ISO, regulators, etc.)
- Cloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience
- Deep observability experience (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, ELK)
- Experience sourcing and hiring engineering talent
- A history of delivering internal tools or automation that improved developer or operator workflows
- Blockchain/crypto infrastructure experience, such as running nodes and validators
- Prior experience in financial services or regulated industries
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
- 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid vacation
- Free commuter/parking pass
- Free custom lunches and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
Workplace
- Full-time onsite at the New York City or Toronto office
Skills
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- Grafana
- Terraform
- AWS
- Linux
- Go
- Bash
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Prometheus
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- Alertmanager
- Loki
- ELK
