Platform Architect

Define and evolve the architectural foundation of core platforms and shared services, designing scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting Bitcoin, Layer-2, and enterprise products.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical vision for the platform and shared services
• Design scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting Bitcoin, Layer-2, and enterprise products
• Define platform standards for APIs, data models, service boundaries, and infrastructure patterns
• Partner with engineering teams to guide implementation, review designs, and resolve complex technical challenges
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to ensure defense-in-depth, key management, and operational resilience
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies while balancing innovation with operational maturity
• Ensure platform designs meet regulatory, enterprise, and institutional requirements without compromising decentralization
• Document architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and long-term technical roadmaps
• Mentor senior engineers to raise overall architectural rigor across teams

Requirements

• 5+ years designing and operating large-scale platforms or infrastructure systems
• 6-8 years building production-grade backend systems with strong security boundaries, authentication, authorization, key management, and designing APIs and data models for distributed services
• Proven experience as a Platform Architect, Principal Engineer, or Senior Systems Architect
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including consensus, fault tolerance, replication, and networking
• Strong experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, bare metal, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Expertise in security-critical systems including authentication, authorization, cryptography, and key management
• Experience designing high-availability systems for financial or mission-critical applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort working in a remote, globally distributed team
• Hands-on experience with Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, or blockchain infrastructure (preferred)
• Experience contributing to open-source projects (preferred)
• Familiarity with HSMs, secure enclaves, or hardware-backed key storage (preferred)
• Background in fintech, capital markets, or institutional financial systems (preferred)
• Experience balancing enterprise requirements with decentralized architectures (preferred)