Platform Engineering Manager

Join Galaxy, a leading digital asset and blockchain technology company. As a Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead the Platform Engineering team, set the technical direction, develop engineers, and run operational logistics. You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and be responsible for the shared platform's technical strategy, production reliability, and team execution. Enjoy benefits such as equity exposure, 401(k) contributions, flexible time off, full paid health benefits, and more.

• Lead the Platform Engineering team, setting the technical direction and developing the engineers on the team.
• Oversee the operational machinery that keeps the team and its engagements moving, ensuring production reliability for institutional-grade systems.
• Coordinate across Digital Infrastructure, client-facing teams, and engagement leads to ensure the right engineers are on the right work at the right time.
• Comfort being customer-facing when the engagement calls for it. Tier-1 institutional clients expect engineering leadership at the table on technical decisions
• Leverage AI tools (e.g., generative AI, automation platforms, data copilots) to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality in your day-to-day work
• Experience operating in or alongside a forward-deployed, embedded, or solutions-engineering model
• Strong technical depth. You don't have to write production code, but you should be able to read it, review architecture critically, and earn the respect of senior and staff engineers on technical merit
• Crisp judgment about when to generalize and when to stay bespoke. The platform thesis only works if you can tell the difference
• Experience leading small, senior teams. You know how to get leverage from a handful of strong engineers without adding headcount as the answer to every problem
• Demonstrated operational chops — you've run the logistics of a team that ships across multiple concurrent workstreams. Staffing, sequencing, cadences, incident response. You can hold the whole picture in your head and keep it moving without bureaucracy
• Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes
• High agency, low ego. We operate decentralized command — you'll own a clear mandate and be expected to drive within it without waiting for permission
• A track record leading platform, infrastructure, or distributed-systems engineering teams in production-critical environments — financial infrastructure, custody, exchanges, payments, or comparable high-stakes domains
• Blockchain / protocol experience — staking, validators, MPC, custody, DeFi protocol integration, tokenization infrastructure
• Experience with MPC, HSMs, threshold signing, or secure enclaves
• Background working with tier-1 financial institutions (banks, asset managers, custodians) as engineering counterparts
• Experience building or scaling a forward-deployed engineering function from early stage