Technical Lead Manager, Infrastructure

LOCATION

Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

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.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

FIRST 30 DAYS

Build deep context on Morpho's on-chain deployment patterns, core services, and infrastructure pain points. Publish an initial platform strategy and 90-day roadmap, start 1:1s with the team, and take over weekly incident reviews and architecture forums.

FIRST 3 MONTHS

Have the platform team staffed against current priorities with a clear pipeline for open roles. Ship a self-service deployment pipeline with automated rollbacks for at least one tier-1 service, and stand up observability with proactive alerting and defined SLOs.

FIRST 6 MONTHS

Establish zero-trust IAM and multi-region readiness for at least one tier-1 surface with tested failover. Deliver measurable developer-productivity and cost gains against SLOs, with the team operating autonomously and shipping without individual heroics.

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.