Head of Platform Engineering

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.

The Role

We are looking for a seasoned Head of Platform Engineering to lead Chronicle’s infrastructure organization through its next stage of growth.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with organizational development, operational resilience, security governance, compliance readiness, and platform strategy.

You will lead a globally distributed DevOps and Infrastructure team, own the reliability and scalability of our production systems, and help Chronicle mature into an infrastructure platform capable of supporting institutional-grade customers and regulatory scrutiny.

This is not a pure management position. We are looking for someone who remains technically credible and can actively contribute to architecture, incident response, infrastructure strategy, and engineering execution.

You will work closely with the Head of Engineering, Product, Operations, Legal, and Executive leadership to establish the foundations required for Chronicle’s next phase of growth.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 12 months you will:

• Lead Chronicle’s operational compliance maturity through ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness.
• Improve operational resilience, disaster recovery capabilities, and follow-the-sun operations.
• Strengthen institutional readiness for audits, customer due diligence, and security reviews.
• Build a high-performing Platform Engineering organization and culture.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Required Skills & Experience

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.

You Will Stand Out If

• You have worked in regulated financial, payments, custody, or digital asset environments.
• You have contributed to ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar compliance programs.
• You have built distributed teams and follow-the-sun operational models.
• You can balance startup execution speed with operational discipline.

What We Offer

• 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.