Technical Lead, Infrastructure

Morpho Labs; Paris; Hybride; EUR 150 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health coverage

Flexibility

Time together in Paris

Résumé du poste

Morphо Labs is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead to own the infrastructure roadmap end-to-end, raise reliability to institutional standards, and grow the engineers behind it. You will build and lead the platform engineering team, set architecture standards, and partner with product and business to enable delivery.

You will drive self-service infrastructure, CI/CD improvements, and proactive observability, while promoting zero-trust security, multi-region readiness, and strong cross-functional

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience scaling production infrastructure from startup to enterprise.
• Led platform/infrastructure transformations improving velocity and reliability.
• Fluent with event-driven architectures, Kubernetes-based platforms, GitOps, and cloud infra (AWS).
• Hands-on in architecture reviews and incident response; strong management-first leadership.
• Cross-functional influence across product, protocol, and business teams.

Responsabilités

• Build and lead Morpho's platform engineering team with hiring, performance, and growth.
• Own the infrastructure roadmap and technical strategy with documented decisions.
• Improve engineering velocity via self-service infra and optimized CI/CD.
• Raise reliability and security with zero-trust IAM and multi-region readiness.
• Collaborate with product, protocol, and business teams to enable delivery.
• Establish architecture docs, IaC standards, and mentorship for engineers.

Connaissances

Platform engineering

Team management

Kubernetes

GitOps

AWS

Event-driven

Crypto/DeFi interest

Infrastructure reviews

Cross-functional leadership

Incident response

Outils

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Description du poste

Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article here .

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.

We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.