Insomnia Labs

Insomnia Labs

Engineering Technical Lead

New York, New York, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 45 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusDatadogDevOpsKafkadbtCybersecurityIncident ResponseComplianceTest AutomationLeadership

About the role

  • Delivery & Execution Convert product asks into a cohesive Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimates, sequencing, and risk plan.
  • Run the engineering side of delivery: daily flow, unblocking, dependency management, and predictable on-time releases.

Responsibilities

  • Own target architecture, patterns, and guardrails for CreatorFi platform services (auth, data, orchestration, observability).
  • Write and/or review design docs
  • Proactively manage tech debt and trade-offs
  • Write and/or review design docs; spike tricky pieces; set code-quality bars; merge complex PRs.
  • Proactively manage tech debt and trade-offs; keep the roadmap honest about platform risks and runway.
  • Define and own SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; instrument dashboards and alerts.
  • Lead operational readiness and incident response; drive fixes to completion.
  • Key custody: design and operate secrets, KMS/HSM integration, and least-privilege patterns across services.
  • Own the on-call rota for the squad; maintain runbooks and escalation paths.
  • Mentor engineers; raise the bar on PRs and design docs; pair where it matters.

Requirements

  • Proven track record leading platform/infra initiatives for SaaS or fintech-like systems (availability, scale, security).
  • Required Qualifications

Nice to have

  • Payments or financial systems (idempotency, reconciliation, ledgers, PSP integrations).
  • Data platforms (eventing, Kafka/Kinesis, CDC, warehouse/Lakehouse, DBT, schema governance).
  • Web3 stack familiarity (Solidity/Foundry/Hardhat, custodial vs. non-custodial flows, chain interaction patterns).
  • Infra-as-code (Terraform), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), observability (OpenTelemetry, Datadog/Prometheus).
  • Security and privacy patterns (threat modeling, least privilege, client-side encryption).
  • 30% delivery leadership (planning, unblocking, cross-team dependencies)
  • 20% hands-on coding of critical paths
  • 20% reliability/security/quality (SLOs, audits, on-call, controls)

Skills

  • daily flow, unblocking, dependency management, and predictable on-time releases.
  • Coordinate with shared QA/DevOps; ensure CI/CD pipelines and environments are healthy and fast.
  • Reliability, Security & Compliance
  • Enforce CI/CD gates, automated testing thresholds, code-review standards, and security scanning.

Benefits

  • People & Team Health
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