Technical Lead Manager, Infrastructure

ABOUT MORPHO Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world.   WHY MORPHO EXISTS 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 https://morpho.org/blog/why-morpho-exists/. 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. PERKS & BENEFITS 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.   EQUAL OPPORTUNITY We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.