Director/VP, Digital Asset Platform Engineering

Morgan Stanley; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Morgan Stanley employee benefits

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join the Digital Assets Platform Technology team. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant platform capabilities for custody, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, and smart contract services.

The position demands leadership to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities, driving architecture and implementation across custody, wallet management, and integration with external providers while ensuring security,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technology experience with leadership experience in engineering.
• 3+ years with digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, or distributed-ledger tech.
• Strong cloud-native architecture with AWS, CI/CD, DevSecOps, containers, and IaC.
• Experience integrating custody and wallet infrastructure and secure key management.
• Understanding token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721) and on-chain/off-chain patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor cross-functional team building secure, scalable digital asset custody capabilities.
• Define engineering roadmap for custody, wallet, key-management, blockchain connectivity, and platform services.
• Design custody solutions with security-by-design, key protection, transaction integrity, access control, and auditability.
• Architect integrations with custody providers, blockchain networks, node infra, and enterprise platforms.
• Establish secure patterns across the digital asset lifecycle: creation, validation, signing, submission, reconciliation.
• Partner with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, operations, and product teams to translate requirements into robust tech solutions.
• Own production readiness, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, disaster recovery, and secure release processes.
• Implement engineering practices: secure coding, automated testing, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code reviews, security testing.

Skills

Blockchain

Distributed systems

Security-by-design

Leadership

AWS

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join the Digital Assets Platform Technology team. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant platform capabilities for custody, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, and smart contract services.

The position demands leadership to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities, driving architecture and implementation across custody, wallet management, and integration with external providers while ensuring security,