About the company
Figment is the world’s leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. We provide the most comprehensive staking solution for our over 200+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders to earn rewards on their crypto assets. These clients rely on Figment’s institutional staking service including rewards optimization, rapid API development, rewards reporting, partner integrations, governance, and slashing protection. Figment is backed by industry experts, financial institutions and our global team across twenty three countries. This all leads to our mission to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web3 ecosystem. We are a growth stage technology company – looking for people who are builders and doers. People who are comfortable plotting their course through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive impact and who are excited to work in new ways and empower a generative company culture.
Job Summary
How you will make an impact
📍Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers responsible for maintaining production blockchain nodes across a growing portfolio of protocols during their entire lifecycle. 📍Own and drive new chain launches from genesis — ensuring deadlines are met, stakeholders are coordinated, and blockers are escalated early. 📍Serve as project manager for team deliverables, ensuring all tasks are clearly tracked, prioritized, and executed. When a commitment is made, you own it. 📍Maintain high visibility into the status of every chain launch or upgrade. Leadership and cross-functional teams look to you for updates on statuses and updated Jira dashboards/tasks. 📍Proactively escalate risks, shifts in scope, or missing inputs with clarity and urgency. 📍Manage team workflows including Jira boards, retrospectives, and delivery tracking while continuously improving team velocity and execution quality. 📍Maintain a high bar for operational readiness — including on-call processes, monitoring, and incident response — to ensure production-grade reliability. 📍Support and grow your team through 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews, and development planning. 📍Foster a team culture grounded in accountability, urgency, and ownership — with clear expectations around follow-through and autonomy. 📍Collaborate with stakeholders across protocol, product, and customer teams to align on priorities, scope, and delivery expectations. 📍Own hiring and onboarding of new team members, building a high-performing team with a shared sense of responsibility.
What you bring to the team
📍5+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer — particularly in Linux-based environments managing production systems and networking at scale. 📍4+ years of experience managing engineers (5–10 reports), with a focus on people development, delivery accountability, and team health. 📍3+ years of experience managing project-based delivery cycles, including setting priorities, coordinating stakeholders, tracking deadlines, and unblocking execution. 📍Demonstrated success operating infrastructure with 24/7 uptime requirements and production on-call responsibilities. 📍Excellent organizational and communication skills — able to track many moving pieces across chains, vendors, and internal teams.
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