Technical Lead - Infrastructure

Toronto · New York · 2+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Oct 9, 2026

At a glance

BitGo is seeking a Technical Lead - Infrastructure to join their team in Toronto or New York.
This is a player-coach role requiring roughly 60% hands-on engineering and 40% team leadership.
The role involves leading a small team of infrastructure engineers while participating in an on-call rotation.

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
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
Partner with the Head of Infrastructure to build, shape, and execute the infrastructure roadmap
Translate long-term goals into concrete, shippable milestones, and plan, estimate, and make tradeoffs with your team
Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to identify infrastructure requirements, risks, and opportunities

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
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

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

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