Senior Engineering Manager

About the Company

Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. Founded by Cornell computer scientists, the company is redefining the way people create value with Web3 by empowering users to digitize assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams delivering Fortary's custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations
• Own the architecture and roadmap for the distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, and transaction policy controls
• Partner with Product, Security, BD, and executives to prioritize investments against customer, regulatory, and business needs
• Support multiple deployment models including managed platform and licensed software
• Ensure engineering practices meet security, compliance, and governance standards for chartered-institution status
• Lead incident response for outages, security events, and key management scenarios
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the organization

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering
• 5+ years leading teams shipping production-scale secure distributed systems
• Track record owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architecture through production
• Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key management (MPC, threshold signatures, TEEs, HSMs)
• Experience building cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and observability
• Fluency in compliance frameworks for regulated finance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, AML/KYC)
• Experience across digital asset infrastructure including custody, trading, staking, and treasury
• Ability to communicate credibly with executives, institutional customers, auditors, and regulators

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling an organization toward a chartered or licensed financial entity
• Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products