Head of Platform Engineering

Join Chronicle as the Head of Platform Engineering, leading the infrastructure organization for a cutting-edge decentralized Oracle solution in the DeFi space. About Chronicle Labs Chronicle is a cutting-edge decentralized Oracle solution delivering secure, transparent, and verifiable real-time data. With over $13 billion in collateral secured for major DeFi ecosystems, we empower institutions, builders, and tokenized asset issuers with unmatched trust and transparency. Backed by a $12M seed round from leading investors and angels, Chronicle is expanding its infrastructure, security, and operational capabilities to support the next generation of institutional customers, including asset managers, custodians, banks, and tokenization platforms. In addition to our continued partnership with Sky (formerly MakerDAO), we are building the world’s first fully verifiable, cost-efficient, scalable, and decentralized oracle infrastructure for both DeFi and Real World Assets (RWA). This is an opportunity to join a top-tier crypto infrastructure company at a pivotal stage of growth, where operational excellence, reliability, security, compliance, and institutional readiness are becoming as important as engineering velocity. Infrastructure is a first-class engineering discipline at Chronicle. We view platform reliability, operational resilience, and security as strategic capabilities that directly support customer trust and product growth.

Infrastructure Leadership

• •Lead and grow Chronicle’s Platform Engineering and DevOps organization.
• •Define infrastructure strategy, operational standards, ownership boundaries, and long-term platform roadmap.
• •Build a high-performing team through hiring, mentoring, and leadership.

Reliability & Operational Excellence

• •Own platform reliability, operational readiness, and service health.
• •Establish measurable reliability objectives, operational KPIs, and continuous improvement practices.
• •Build a mature operational culture through observability, incident management, on-call operations, and post-incident learning.

Security, Compliance & Resilience

• •Lead infrastructure readiness for ISO 27001, SOC 2, customer due diligence, and institutional security reviews.
• •Own infrastructure governance, operational controls, business continuity, and disaster recovery programs.
• •Reduce operational risk, single points of failure, and dependency on individual contributors.

Platform Engineering & Developer Experience

• •Own Chronicle’s cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code platforms.
• •Improve engineering productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardization.
• •Partner with engineering teams to improve delivery confidence, operational efficiency, and developer experience.

Infrastructure Governance & FinOps

• •Establish practices for vendor management, operational risk assessment, capacity planning, and infrastructure economics.
• •Drive efficient infrastructure growth while balancing reliability, security, and cost.
• •Maintain visibility into critical dependencies, infrastructure investments, and operational trade-offs.

Blockchain & Oracle Infrastructure

• •Oversee the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of Chronicle’s oracle and blockchain infrastructure platform.
• •Improve platform reliability, observability, scalability, and operational tooling across multiple blockchain ecosystems.
• •Bridge modern platform engineering practices with decentralized infrastructure.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• •Partner with Product, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Executive leadership on company-wide initiatives.
• •Act as a trusted technical counterpart during audits, institutional onboarding, and customer due diligence processes.
• •Communicate infrastructure strategy, operational health, risks, and priorities to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• •Competitive compensation package
• •Equity participation
• •Flexible payment options (USD, EUR, USDC)
• •6 weeks vacation
• •Remote-first environment
• •Flexible working schedule
• •Annual company offsites
• •Opportunity to work with industry veterans at the forefront of DeFi and Real World Asset infrastructure
• •Direct impact on the future of institutional blockchain adoption
• •As part of the application process, we require completion of a KYC procedure to verify identity and location.

Leadership & Organizational Development

• •8+ years in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• •Proven experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers in distributed organizations.
• •Strong track record of building scalable teams, operational processes, and engineering culture.

Regulated & Institutional Environments

• •Experience operating and scaling infrastructure within environments subject to security, compliance, audit, or regulatory requirements.
• •Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, financial services controls, or equivalent governance programs.
• •Experience supporting audits, customer due diligence processes, vendor assessments, or institutional security reviews.

Platform Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure

• •Strong hands-on expertise with modern cloud-native infrastructure, including AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and Linux-based systems.
• •Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical contribution when required.

Reliability & Operational Excellence

• •Experience operating large-scale production systems with mature incident management, on-call, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• •Strong understanding of service reliability, operational risk management, resilience engineering, and platform governance.

Technical Foundations

• •Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, automation, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native technologies.