Infrastructure Engineer, Bitgo
DataOps Team
CA$180-200k
+ Equity + Annual performance bonus
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Be an early applicant
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$180-200k
+ Equity + Annual performance bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- BitGo is looking for people who are passionate about their craft, take full ownership for their work and projects, and believe in a transparent and collaborative culture with the goal of making BitGo successful
- 3–5 years of experience in a DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure role
- Experience leveraging AI to amplify impact
- Strong Linux administration skills
- Proficiency with AWS and Kubernetes, including experience working in distributed Kubernetes environments
- Highly fluent in Bash and either Python, or GoLang
- Experience scaling and tuning performance of large systems
- Strong security background including secrets management, WAFs, and network policy enforcement
- Hands-on experience with databases
- Experience as a member of an on-call rotation
- Interest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space
Desirable
- Experience with modern deployment tooling such as ArgoCD
- Experience with GitHub Actions or other modern CI tooling
- Experience with CNCF Kubernetes ecosystem including operators
What the job involves
- BitGo is looking for an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to build, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure
- As part of the DataOps team you will work on improving our Observability stack (Grafana, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope), on the pipelines that move terabytes of data into our data warehouse and on improving efficiency and streamlining database operations
- You will join a talented team of engineers who demonstrate strong technical ability, delivering mission-critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security
- The team has a proven track record of zero-downtime critical changes and upgrades
- Implement changes to production infrastructure where uptime is critical
- Maintain high availability of BitGo's Blockchain services
- Participate in the operations response team (on-call rotation)
- Facilitate deployment of new code and support release processes
- Support operational monitoring and alerting
- Ensure reliability and availability of our logging platform
- Maintain Kubernetes clusters on both bare-metal and AWS
- Support deployment strategy through automation, scripting, and workflow optimization
- Manage distributed Databases and Kafka clusters
Our take
The digital asset industry is maturing, with asset companies looking to shore up their positions by adding secure custody capabilities. This is good news for BitGo, an independent, regulated cryptocurrency custodian company providing security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
BitGo’s flagship multi-signature wallet solution helps its clients mitigate risk and optimise capital efficiency. The company has subsequently expanded to also cover a number of areas that are critical for any holder of major crypto assets, like portfolio and tax management. In this, BitGo was smart to focus exclusively on institutional clients: there’s a huge appetite among larger players to expedite the mainstreaming of crypto, and they’ll need precisely BitGo’s tools to get there.
BitGo was in talks to be acquired by PayPal, and most recently, by Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. Despite a rocky 2024 for the digital assets (which now sees BitGo suing Galaxy Digital for pulling out of the acquisition deal), BitGo has manoeuvred itself into a central position to capitalise on what, now, seems a near-inevitable period of mass adoption.
Exemplifying this, the BitGo Ventures wing of the company was launched in 2024 to partner with and invest in cutting-edge blockchain and fintech startups, whilst the company saw revenue rocket to $4.19 billion in H1 2025. It completed an IPO bid in Q1 26, which is fitting considering its growth
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Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170.5m
Company benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
- Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
- Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
- Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
- Top-end computer equipment to power your work
- Flexible vacation time
- Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
Company HQ
Downtown, Sioux Falls, SD
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Director of Engineering at Good Technology, who went on to found Cookout Software - and then move to Google as a Software Engineer/Development Manager when the latter company bought out the startup. Has served as BitGo CEO for over a decade.
Ben Davenport
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has spent time as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and worked on algorithm development at Hudson River Trading. Additionally co-founded and led Beluga, a mobile group messaging solution that was ultimately bought by Facebook, and became Facebook Messenger.
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