Who We Are and What We are Doing:
Ethena Labs is actively building and deploying a suite of groundbreaking digital dollar products aiming to upgrade money into the internet era.
Our flagship product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, and takes the novel approach of using a delta-neutral hedged basis strategy to maintain its peg. This product scaled from zero to $15b in 18 months.
Expanding on this, iUSDe is designed specifically for traditional financial institutions, incorporating necessary compliance features to enable them to access the crypto-native rewards our protocol generates, in an institutional-friendly manner.
Ethena has also developed USDtb: a fiat backed GENIUS compliant stablecoin in partnership with Black Rock which has scaled to ~$2b.
These products are also offered in a whitelabel stablecoin offering where any application, chain, wallet or exchange can launch their own stablecoin on Ethena's back-end infrastructure.
Through these offerings, Ethena Labs is not just creating new financial products; we are building the foundational infrastructure for a more open, efficient, and interconnected global financial system.
Open job offerings will be focused on two new major product lines coming to market in the next few months.
Join us!!
The Role
As the Head of Platform Engineering, you’ll spearhead the evolution of our scalable, secure, and high-performing platform, driving the infrastructure that fuels our fast-paced startup. Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll lead a lean team of 1‑2 Senior/Intermediate Dev Ops Engineers and take full ownership of our platform strategy, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and empowers engineering teams.
You’ll remain hands‑on, contributing as a staff/principal‑level engineer to write code, design architecture, and solve complex technical challenges. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leads and senior peers across the company to advance strategic priorities, enable business growth, and deliver measurable value. Your mission is to advance our infrastructure, proactively eliminate bottlenecks, and cultivate a world‑class Dev Ops culture.
What You’ll Do- Champion Infrastructure Reliability:
Conduct gap analyses to strengthen infrastructure, maintain exceptional uptime for critical systems (e.g., APIs, databases), and enhance monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog) to ensure rapid incident detection and resolution. - Lead Strategic Initiatives:
Own high-priority infrastructure projects, defining clear roadmaps and fostering accountability to deliver outcomes that drive business success and enable company growth. - Shape Platform Strategy:
Develop and execute a forward‑thinking infrastructure strategy, leveraging tools like Terraform and Kubernetes to optimize deployments, streamline operations, and support business expansion. - Hands‑On Technical Leadership:
Actively contribute as a staff/principal‑level engineer, writing high‑quality code, designing robust architectures, and solving complex technical problems to set a high standard for the team. - Build a High‑Performing Team:
Mentor and develop your team, recruit top talent, and foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, guided by meaningful performance metrics. - Drive Security and Compliance:
Implement robust security practices (e.g., zero‑trust models, Dev Sec Ops ) and ensure compliance with standards like SOC 2 and GDPR, maintaining a secure and compliant platform that supports business trust and growth. - Enhance Developer
Experience:
Optimize deployment pipelines to support frequent, reliable production releases and empower developers with self‑service tools and standardized environments to maximize productivity and accelerate feature delivery. - Promote Cost Efficiency:
Implement Fin Ops practices and tools like AWS Cost Explorer to optimize resource allocation, balancing cost, performance, and scalability, particularly during peak crypto transaction volumes, to support financial growth. - Strengthen Incident Management:
Enhance incident response and recovery processes, ensuring robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans for…
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