Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform

Remote (Global). Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will lead the engineering organization building Fortary's institutional digital asset platform. This includes owning the architecture and technical strategy for a distributed MPC custody system and growing the team.

What you will do

Lead multiple teams delivering Fortary's custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations
Own the architecture and roadmap for the distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, and transaction policy controls
Partner with Product, Security, BD, and executives to prioritize investments
Support multiple deployment models: managed platform and licensed software
Ensure engineering practices meet security, compliance, and governance requirements
Lead incident response for outages, security events, and key management scenarios
Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers
Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the org

Required qualifications

10+ years in software engineering
5+ years leading teams shipping production-scale secure distributed systems
Track record owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architecture through production
Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key management: MPC, threshold signatures, TEEs, HSMs
Experience building cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability)
Fluency in the compliance frameworks for regulated finance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, AML/KYC
Awareness of the SEC/CFTC/OCC/MiCA landscape
Experience across digital asset infrastructure: custody, trading, staking, treasury, and blockchain settlement
Ability to communicate credibly with executives, institutional customers, auditors, and regulators

Nice to have

Experience scaling an org toward a chartered or licensed financial entity
Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products

About the company

Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists and has offices in New York City and Miami.