Senior DevOps Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Figment as a Senior DevOps Engineering Manager and lead a team responsible for managing blockchain nodes and infrastructure at scale. You will oversee new chain launches, ensuring timely and successful execution. This role demands strong project management skills, proactive risk escalation, and a commitment to maintaining high operational readiness. You will mentor and develop a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of accountability and ownership. The position requires extensive experience in DevOps engineering, team management, and project delivery, along with excellent communication and organizational skills. Figment offers a competitive compensation package and a range of benefits, including a 100% remote-first environment, generous PTO, comprehensive health benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer — particularly in Linux-based environments managing production systems and networking at scale
• 4+ years of experience managing engineers (5–10 reports), with a focus on people development, delivery accountability, and team health
• 3+ years of experience managing project-based delivery cycles, including setting priorities, coordinating stakeholders, tracking deadlines, and unblocking execution
• Demonstrated success operating infrastructure with 24/7 uptime requirements and production on-call responsibilities
• Excellent organizational and communication skills — able to track many moving pieces across chains, vendors, and internal teams
• Experience leading incident reviews and postmortems with a focus on long-term reliability and learning
• Comfort working in highly dynamic, startup-like environments where priorities shift rapidly

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers responsible for maintaining production blockchain nodes across a growing portfolio of protocols during their entire lifecycle
• Own and drive new chain launches from genesis — ensuring deadlines are met, stakeholders are coordinated, and blockers are escalated early
• Serve as project manager for team deliverables, ensuring all tasks are clearly tracked, prioritized, and executed. When a commitment is made, you own it
• Maintain high visibility into the status of every chain launch or upgrade. Leadership and cross-functional teams look to you for updates on statuses and updated Jira dashboards/tasks
• Proactively escalate risks, shifts in scope, or missing inputs with clarity and urgency
• Manage team workflows including Jira boards, retrospectives, and delivery tracking while continuously improving team velocity and execution quality
• Maintain a high bar for operational readiness — including on-call processes, monitoring, and incident response — to ensure production-grade reliability
• Support and grow your team through 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews, and development planning
• Foster a team culture grounded in accountability, urgency, and ownership — with clear expectations around follow-through and autonomy
• Collaborate with stakeholders across protocol, product, and customer teams to align on priorities, scope, and delivery expectations
• Own hiring and onboarding of new team members, building a high-performing team with a shared sense of responsibility

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating blockchain infrastructure or working on validator teams
• Familiarity with node setup, chain genesis procedures, or peer-to-peer networks
• Experience running infrastructure across multiple clouds or bare-metal providers

Benefits

• 100% remote-first environment. Our flagship office is in Toronto, Canada. We also have additional co-working spaces in New York, London, and Singapore. That means if you want to do your things in the office (if you’re near one), at home, or a bit of both, it’s up to you
• 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days
• Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one
• Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements
• A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in
• Monthly Wifi reimbursement
• A yearly Learning & Development budget
• 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada)
• Stock Options in the company
• A competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often For roles listed within the Sales Department, there is instead a competitive commissions structure which will be outlined during your first interview with Figment
• Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!