Head of Platform Reliability

Head of Platform Reliability

The Clearing House's On-Chain Money Initiative will let US financial institutions clear and settle tokenized deposits on chain, connected to the RTP® and CHIPS® networks. Quant powers it, and we need someone to own its reliability ahead of an expected launch in the first half of 2027.

That means the full production environment (OP Stack, a private Besu L1, Paladin nodes, the Overledger Gateway, the Settlement Bridge and the Audit Store), the service levels and error-budget policy, and the authority to stop a release when the budget is spent. You would also build and lead the team that runs it, on a three-shift rotation you design and take part in yourself.

Chain platforms fail differently

state is expensive, restarts are not a strategy, and much of what looks like infrastructure is protocol behavior. If that sounds interesting rather than daunting, we should talk.

You will need

• To have led site reliability or production engineering somewhere failure had consequences.
• To have run error budgets in practice: used one to stop a release, and defended the call.
• Honest experience of 24x7, multi-shift coverage. What burns people out, what does not, and the difference between a rotation on paper and one people can live with.
• Kubernetes, Terraform, and an observability stack you have actually debugged rather than configured.

Useful, not essential

• Blockchain nodes in production, particularly Besu or another Ethereum client.
• Banking, payments, or somewhere else an auditor asked you to prove something.

There is more to this than we can put in an advertisement. If it sounds like your kind of problem, apply and we will tell you the rest on a call.