Technical Lead Manager, Infrastructure

Role: This role exists to build and lead Morpho's platform engineering team: own the infrastructure roadmap end-to-end, raise reliability to institutional standards, and grow the engineers behind it.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead the platform engineering team, owning hiring, performance, and career growth to scale the team for a growing engineering org while holding a high technical and culture bar.
• Own the infrastructure roadmap and technical strategy, turning product and business needs into a prioritized backlog and documented architecture decisions that balance speed, cost, and reliability.
• Accelerate engineering velocity by driving self-service infrastructure, CI/CD optimization for the monorepo, and developer tooling that cuts deployment time to minutes.
• Raise the reliability and security bar with zero-trust IAM, observability across tier-1 services, proactive alerting, and blameless incident and post-mortem practices, working toward multi-region readiness and institutional-grade SLOs.
• Partner with product, protocol, and business teams to represent platform engineering in planning, translate infrastructure trade-offs into business impact, and keep the platform enabling rather than gating product delivery.
• Set the engineering culture by example through clear architecture docs, infrastructure-as-code standards, and mentorship that helps engineers grow and ship with confidence.

Must Have Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Track record building and scaling production infrastructure from startup to enterprise scale, owning reliability and developer-experience outcomes.
• Experience leading platform or infrastructure transformations that measurably improved developer velocity and reliability, with concrete metrics.
• Deep technical fluency in event-driven architectures, Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on enough to review architecture, guide technical calls, and join incident response, while leading management-first.
• Strong cross-functional leadership: influences decisions across product, protocol, and business teams without direct authority.
• Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet.
• Clear, crisp async communication through RFCs, runbooks, and incident reviews.
• High ownership and autonomy with a team-first, low-ego mindset.
• Genuine curiosity about crypto and DeFi.