Director of Engineering, Bitgo
Infrastructure
$260-320k
+ Equity and annual performance bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Be an early applicant
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$260-320k
+ Equity and annual performance bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for leaders who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship
- We are looking for individuals who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets
- 10+ years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability role
- 4+ years of experience successfully leading geographically distributed teams of 4+ engineers
- Hands-on experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong experience working with Kubernetes workloads in production environments
- Strong experience working with CI/CD tooling
- Strong familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki and ELK
- Strong desire to automate where possible
- Experience in participating in and organizing on-call rotations
- Proven experience sourcing and hiring top engineering talent
- Experience working in a cross-team environment, collaborating with and enabling other functions to drive broader departmental goals
- A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
- Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving
- Lead a large, strategic organization composed of multiple engineering teams and managers, ensuring a clear impact on the success of BitGo
- Own the success of the Infrastructure department, making decisions that consistently drive the achievement of departmental and company OKRs
- Be accountable for the overall technical integrity, operational health, and fiscal responsibility of our core infrastructure. This includes upholding a high technical bar while making pragmatic, data-driven decisions on budget and resource allocation
- Ensure the organization is resilient, responsive, and able to quickly address changing business conditions or critical production issues
- Collaborate effectively with senior leaders across engineering, product, security, and finance to break down organizational silos and align the infrastructure roadmap with business priorities
- Define and communicate a multi-year technical vision and strategy for Infrastructure that aligns with BitGo’s ambitious growth plans in the crypto fintech space
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 optimize 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 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 Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. In spite of 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's now gearing up for an IPO bid, which is fitting considering its growth.
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's now gearing up for an IPO bid, 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
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(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
(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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