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Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.\nThis role will require being full-time onsite at our Toronto or New York City office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving. You will participate in an on-call rotation covering 8:00am-4:00pm ET.\nThis is a player-coach role: you'll lead a small team of infrastructure engineers while staying hands-on in the engineering work itself. You'll be an extra set of hands on your team's projects, take on smaller initiatives yourself so the team can stay focused on roadmap work, and help build, shape, and execute our infrastructure roadmap. 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We operate primarily on AWS but believe skills in one cloud provider translate to others\nStrong Linux systems administration skills and networking fundamentals (VPCs, security groups, load balancers, CNI plugins, network policy management)\nProficiency in at least one high-level programming language, preferably Go, with strong bash scripting\nOperational experience with relational and NoSQL databases\nExperience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines\nExperience participating in and organizing on-call rotations, and leading incident response\nStrong project management skills and experience collaborating across teams\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills\nPreferred\nSecurity operations experience, including vulnerability management, security monitoring, and incident response\nExperience with compliance frameworks and audit lifecycles (SOC, ISO, regulators, etc.)\nCloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience\nDeep observability experience (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, ELK)\nExperience sourcing and hiring engineering talent\nA history of delivering internal tools or automation that improved developer or operator workflows\nBlockchain/crypto infrastructure experience, such as running nodes and validators\nPrior experience in financial services or regulated industries\nWhy Join BitGo?\nDisrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem-solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.\nBenefits may vary based on location.\nPay Transparency Notice:\nDepending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $205,000 and $250,000 CAD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus, and the benefits outlined above are also part of this role’s package.\nCryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. 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