Job Description
Summary
Conduit’s Rollups team powers the infrastructure and operations that make rollups reliable and scalable. As our Rollups Engineering Team Lead, you’ll sit at the intersection of architecture, operational excellence, and hands‑on engineering.
This role blends 50–70% coding with 30–50% team leadership and ops—ideal for a skilled individual contributor who wants to step into leadership without giving up technical depth.
You’ll partner closely with Head of Product to:
- Systematize infrastructure and operational processes
- Manage critical capacity challenges and incident responses
- Ship new features and upgrades efficiently under pressure
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable rollup infrastructure and tools
- Lead capacity planning, upgrades, and critical incident response
- Provide technical leadership on DevOps and infra: Helm, Kubernetes, CI/CD, gRPC, HTTP
- Delegate effectively and guide the team through high‑stakes technical decisions
- Collaborate with customers and partners for capacity planning and roadmap alignment
- Participate in on‑call rotations to ensure system reliability
Qualifications
- 4+ years of backend/infrastructure software engineering experience
- 2+ years in technical leadership or engineering management
- Strong operational mindset and experience with DevOps: Helm, K8s, CI/CD, gRPC/HTTP. With a proven track record of making product/ops decisions in high‑pressure engineering environments
- Proven track record of shipping and delivering solutions
- Proven experience as Technical Team Lead
- Comfort stepping into critical incidents and bringing systems back to health
- Basic understanding of crypto ecosystems; rollup experience is a plus
What Will Excite You Here?
- Staying hands‑on while growing your leadership impact
- Building systems that can handle mission‑critical scale
- Managing both technical architecture and on‑call workflows
- Growing into a more senior infrastructure leadership role
Our Tech Stack
- Languages: Go, Python, Typescript, Rust, Solidity
- Infra: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines
- Datastores: Postgres, Redis, Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
Skills
- Development
- Leadership
- Python
- Rust
- Software Engineering
- Solidity
- TypeScript