Head of Platform Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (Work from anywhere)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Xapo Bank is a fully distributed company with over 140 employees working remotely from 40+ countries. The company's mission is to create a world with economic freedom and wealth protection, regardless of location. Xapo Bank emphasizes that risk management is the responsibility of every employee.

Position Overview

At Xapo, the goal is to empower software engineering teams with a world-class cloud-native application platform. This platform automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration, dynamically allocating resources to optimize the application lifecycle, enabling efficient scaling, resource utilization, orchestration, and rapid recovery. By standardizing software building and deployment, the platform reduces cognitive load on development teams, allowing them to focus on delivering value and streamlining onboarding. The Platform Engineering Team (PET) builds and maintains this platform, mentoring development teams in cloud-native best practices.

The vision is for development teams to consume core platform services autonomously and self-service. These services include:

• Infrastructure Provisioning: Self-service access to compute, network, and storage resources.
• CI/CD & Developer Tooling: Automated pipelines and tools for rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Observability Suite: Tools and practices for logging, monitoring, metrics, and alerting to ensure high availability, resilience, and actionable insights.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Frameworks: Standardized patterns and tools for creating and managing services in line with architectural best practices.

Platform Engineering is a critical function at Xapo, providing foundational technology for financial products. Xapo is seeking a pragmatic and influential Head of Platform Engineering to lead the team. This role is key to advancing the platform as a product, championing developer productivity and autonomy, and ensuring robust, scalable, secure, and cost-effective operations. The Head of Platform Engineering will report directly to the CTO.

Your Role & Responsibilities: Leading the Platform Evolution

As the Head of Platform Engineering, you will adopt a product mindset, treating the internal engineering community as primary customers. Your mission is to deliver a platform that enables rapid and safe development and iteration. You will:

• Lead & Mentor: Directly manage and cultivate a small, high-performing team of 4 Platform Engineers. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented culture with a strong sense of ownership.
• Strategic Roadmap & Vision: Define, articulate, and drive the strategic vision and product roadmap for the Xapo platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and engineering needs. Prioritize initiatives that deliver maximum business impact.
• Platform as a Product: Champion the "Platform as a Product" approach, deeply understanding the needs of the development teams.