Technical Lead Manager, Infrastructure

Morpho•New York, NY

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by prominent investors, aiming to build an open credit network for global access to capital. The company is experiencing significant growth and is seeking to expand its team to establish itself as a global open credit network. The role of Technical Lead Manager, Infrastructure is crucial for building and leading Morpho's platform engineering team, owning the infrastructure roadmap, enhancing reliability to institutional standards, and fostering the growth of the engineering team.

Requirements

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.

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.