The Role
You will build and lead the team responsible for the reliability, security, and scalability of Gensyn’s production infrastructure and developer platform. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role: you’ll manage and grow a high-performing Infrastructure / Platform / SRE / Security group while remaining technically deep across cloud systems, distributed systems, and operational excellence.
Critically, this role requires meaningful Ethereum / EVM experience, gained either by building an EVM-based protocol or working in a smart contract security/auditing environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps/SRE, and Security Engineers: hiring, coaching, performance management, and execution.
- Own the availability, scalability, and security posture of production systems: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, reliability improvements, and hardening.
- Drive delivery across ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives: roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution against tight timelines.
- Partner closely with CTO and technical leads to scope work, set expectations, communicate progress, and remove blockers.
- Build a strong engineering culture with high standards for operational rigor, security, and developer productivity.
- Establish and evolve internal tooling and platform capabilities that improve deployment velocity, safety, and observability.
- Work cross-functionally with product, security, and research to align infrastructure strategy with business and technical goals.
Must Have (Required)
- 7+ years building and operating production infrastructure/platform/security systems with real operational ownership
- Proven people-management ownership: hiring, coaching, performance management, and leading an infra/platform/SRE/security team.
- Strong cloud systems + software engineering background; able to design systems and review production code.
- Deep hands-on experience with modern infrastructure practices and tooling such as Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, and strong observability (metrics/logs/tracing).
- Demonstrated track record scaling distributed systems with measurable reliability and/or security outcomes
- Ethereum / EVM experience - preferred background in smart contract security / auditing or building at an EVM-based protocol (L2, DeFi protocol, EVM chain, core protocol/platform infrastructure).
Nice to Have
- Experience with distributed ML systems or GPU-heavy environments.
- Experience working closely with research teams or research-adjacent engineering.
- Founder or early-stage engineering leadership experience.
- Meaningful open source contributions.
- Formal verification, fuzzing, or advanced security testing experience in EVM contexts.
Compensation / Benefits
- Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
- Fully remote work- we currently hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
- Visa sponsorship -available for those who would like to relocate to the US after being hired
- 3-4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
- Whatever equipment you need
- Paid sick leave and flexible vacation
- Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance- including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only]
Our Principles
Autonomy & Independence
- Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture.
- Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs.
- Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing.
- Communicate to be understood rather than pushing out information and expecting others to work to understand it.
- Stay a small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams.
Rejection of mediocrity & high performance
- Give direct feedback to everyone immediately - rather than avoiding unpopularity, expecting things to improve naturally, or trading short-term pain for extreme long-term pain.
- Embrace an extreme learning rate - rather than assuming limits to your ability / knowledge.
- Don’t quit - push to the final outcome, despite any barriers.
- Be anti-fragile - balance short-term risk for long-term outcomes.
- Reject waste - guard the company’s time, rather than wasting it in meetings without clear purpose/focus, or bikeshedding.
