Platform Engineering Leader

Socket.dev; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth support

Remote or hybrid work

Generous leave policy

Performance reviews and recognition

International team retreats

Job summary

GoMining is seeking an Engineering Director to own the technology platform behind the GoMining ecosystem. This senior leadership role combines deep engineering expertise with product and business thinking to own the Platform end-to-end.

You will shape technology strategy, architecture, and the road map, ensuring reliability, scalability, and business impact across multiple products. You will lead the Platform engineering team, drive AI-enabled improvements, and partner with Product, Design,

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of Bitcoin mining site operations or similar high-density data environments.
• Strong understanding of ASIC miner architecture, firmware, and diagnostics.
• Skilled in electrical and low-voltage systems, cabling, and power distribution.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals (IP addressing, switches, monitoring tools).
• Ability to read and interpret technical diagrams and electrical schematics.
• Excellent troubleshooting, organizational, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in physically demanding and outdoor conditions.
• Willingness to work flexible shifts, including nights or weekends as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the GoMining Platform.
• Build scalable shared infrastructure used across multiple products and engineering teams.
• Define which capabilities should be centralized at Platform level and which should remain within individual product teams.
• Drive major architectural and technical decisions.
• Identify scalability and architectural bottlenecks before they become business-critical.
• Balance long-term platform investments with immediate product and commercial priorities.
• Own platform reliability, availability, latency, scalability, and operational performance.
• Define and improve SLAs, DORA metrics, engineering performance, and incident-management practices.
• Improve release stability, engineering velocity, and system resilience.
• Lead post-incident improvements and eliminate systemic reliability issues.
• Maintain a high engineering bar without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Own shared authentication, authorization, registration, and 2FA infrastructure.
• Develop common account controls, user restrictions, and security mechanisms.
• Own integrations and shared backend capabilities required across GoMining products.
• Develop shared analytics and event infrastructure.
• Support common infrastructure across web and native applications.
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, and engineering teams on cross-company capabilities.
• Platform at GoMining is not an isolated infrastructure function.
• Work directly with product leaders, GM's, and C-level stakeholders to understand where technology can unlock growth and where platform limitations are holding the business back.
• Prioritize engineering initiatives based on technical risk and business impact.
• Understand how platform decisions affect revenue, conversion, customer experience, and product velocity.
• Identify technical changes that can unlock meaningful business results.
• Balance competing priorities across multiple product teams.
• Make clear trade-offs between speed, scalability, reliability, security, and business value.
• Measure Platform not only through technical metrics, but through how effectively it accelerates the company.
• Lead and develop the Platform engineering organization.
• Own team structure, hiring, performance, priorities, and execution.
• Build a culture of strong engineering ownership and accountability.
• Stay close enough to architecture and technology to challenge decisions and make informed trade-offs.
• Develop strong technical leaders within the team.
• Raise the technical and execution bar across the organization.
• Actively use AI tools and agents in your own work.
• Introduce AI-assisted workflows across engineering, specifications, QA, analytics, and operations.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering work.
• Use AI to increase engineering velocity and quality.
• Build a team where AI becomes part of the engineering operating model.

Skills

Bitcoin mining ops

ASIC architecture

Firmware diagnostics

Electrical systems

Power distribution

Networking basics

Electrical schematics

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Flexible shifts

Physically demanding

Job description

GoMining is seeking an Engineering Director to own the technology platform behind the GoMining ecosystem. This senior leadership role combines deep engineering expertise with product and business thinking to own the Platform end-to-end.

You will shape technology strategy, architecture, and the road map, ensuring reliability, scalability, and business impact across multiple products. You will lead the Platform engineering team, drive AI-enabled improvements, and partner with Product, Design,