About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world.

Why Morpho Exists

Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article here.

Location

Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

Role

This role exists to build and lead Morpho's platform engineering team: own the infrastructure roadmap end-to-end, raise reliability to institutional standards, and grow the engineers behind it.

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.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days

Build deep context on Morpho's on-chain deployment patterns, core services, and infrastructure pain points. Publish an initial platform strategy and 90-day roadmap, start 1:1s with the team, and take over weekly incident reviews and architecture forums.

First 3 months

Have the platform team staffed against current priorities with a clear pipeline for open roles. Ship a self-service deployment pipeline with automated rollbacks for at least one tier-1 service, and stand up observability with proactive alerting and defined SLOs.

First 6 months

Establish zero-trust IAM and multi-region readiness for at least one tier-1 surface with tested failover. Deliver measurable developer-productivity and cost gains against SLOs, with the team operating autonomously and shipping without individual heroics.

Must Have Skills & Experience

• 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.

Perks & Benefits

We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.

Who We Are

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.

The Mandate

The Bay Area is the global center of gravity for AI, venture capital, and the builders defining the next decade of technology. Solana Foundation is making it a strategic priority — and we are looking for a senior leader to own it, end to end.

As GM, AI Ecosystem, you will be the Foundation's most senior presence in Silicon Valley and the single point of accountability for Solana's growth in the region. This is not a community or events role with a bigger title. You will set regional strategy, control a dedicated budget, make funding decisions that seed new teams and initiatives, and personally carry the relationships that determine whether the most ambitious companies of this cycle build on Solana — or somewhere else.

Your defining mandate is to bridge Solana and the AI & emerging tech worlds. The convergence of AI and crypto — agents that transact, decentralized compute, verifiable inference, machine-to-machine payments — is one of the most consequential frontiers in technology, and it is being built here. You will be the person who convinces the people building it that Solana is the chain to build it on, and who turns that conviction into shipped products.

This is a high-autonomy, high-visibility, capital-backed leadership role. Physical presence in the Bay Area is a hard requirement.

What You'll Own

• Regional strategy and outcomes. Own Solana Foundation's entire strategy and presence in the Bay Area. You set the priorities, and you are accountable for the results.

• The AI × Solana bridge. Build deep relationships across the AI/ML startup, research, and infrastructure communities, and make the case — credibly and technically — for building cutting-edge AI products and use cases on Solana. Convert that conviction into real projects.

• Founder and developer ecosystem. Identify, cultivate, and activate the region's strongest builders, turning them into long-term Solana ecosystem participants.

• VC and capital relationships. Build trusted relationships with the Bay Area's top VCs, accelerators, and incubators to drive high-quality deal flow and co-investment into the Solana ecosystem.

• Flagship presence. Set the regional event strategy — hackathons, founder dinners, technical salons, and marquee side events at major conferences — and hold a bar of quality that matches the caliber of people you're trying to attract.

• Strategic partnerships. Forge partnerships across AI, fintech, and consumer tech that create compounding leverage for Solana's reach and narrative.

• Voice of the region. Represent the Foundation in high-stakes conversations with investors, founders, and press, and feed sharp market intelligence back to global leadership to shape Solana's broader strategy.

Who You Are

• A senior operator with a decade or more across venture capital, ecosystem leadership, company founding or scaling, product or growth at a top-tier technology organization — with a track record others can point to.

• Deeply networked in the Bay Area, with real, earned relationships among founders, investors, and operators that you can activate from day one.

• Fluent in both worlds: you understand crypto and Solana, and you can hold a substantive conversation with AI founders and researchers about what they're building and why it matters.

• The judgment of a capital allocator: you tell signal from noise quickly, concentrate on the few relationships and bets that compound, and deploy resources where they'll matter most.

• An exceptional communicator and closer — the kind of person who earns trust in a single meeting and is remembered after it.

• Comfortable with full ownership and ambiguity: you create your own surface area, set your own agenda, and don't wait to be told the priorities.

• Based full-time in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Hard requirement.)

Signals You'll Stand Out

• A demonstrated track record at the intersection of AI and crypto — you know where these communities overlap and what each side actually cares about.

• Existing, credible relationships in the AI/ML startup and research community.

• Prior experience deploying capital — grants, investments, or an ecosystem fund — and being accountable for the outcomes.

• Founder or early-operator experience: you know what builders need because you've been one.