CTO Advisor (Crypto-Native)
CTO Advisor (Crypto-Native)
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02-10-2025
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Job Description
Were seeking a hands-on CTO Advisor to stabilize reliability (stop regressions reduce Sev-1s) install a lightweight SDLC/SRE/MLOps cadence and leave behind simple runbooks and dashboards the team can operate.
This is an advisor role (not a line-manager): you design gates coach leads and facilitate incident and release hygiene.
Time: 1020 hrs/week (90 days) then 24 hrs/month
Comp: Equity $TMAI only (no cash)
Reporting to: CEOLocation: Austin preferred; open to remote (US/EU/APAC time-zones)
What Youll Do (Responsibilities)
- Establish release gates in CI/CD (tests/coverage static checks feature flags canary/shadow) and clear rollback/kill-switch triggers.
- Implement SRE fundamentals: 35 SLOs (e.g. data freshness job success rate API latency/availability exception closure time) with an error-budget policy.
- Enforce Change & Exceptions Logs; drive post-mortems (Sev-1/2) with action items and owners.
- Pair with Quant to harden AI index safety (model/versioning parity tests drift/health alerts).
- Produce concise runbooks & dashboards; coach engineering leads; hand back the system.
What You Wont Do (Scope guardrails)
- No day-to-day people management or sprint ownership.
- No wallet signatory or payment approvals.
- No changes to liquidity or emissions policy (owned by the $TMAI council).
Qualifications
- Must-have
- 4 years leading engineering in crypto (protocol/DeFi exchange market/data infra or comparable).
- Proven SDLC/DevOps/CI-CD and SRE practice (SLOs error budgets incident response).
- Experience shipping data/ML systems or MLOps basics (versioning parity tests safe rollout).
- Excellent technical writing and async collaboration.
- Nice-to-have
- Smart-contract security/audit handoffs; keys/secrets/multisig hygiene.
- Prior work with index/market-data pipelines or exchange connectivity.
Success Metrics (first 90 days)
- Reliability: measurable reduction in failures (e.g. Sev-1/MTTR 20%; regression escapes 30%).
- Hygiene: 100% prod changes pre-logged; Sev-1 post-mortems with actions 72h; SLOs live and reported monthly.
- Adoption: release gates and runbooks in use by named owners without advisor involvement.
Collaboration
- Operating Chair (monthly business review) Quant (AI indices) $TMAI observers (liquidity dependencies) Finance & Controls (audit evidence).
How to Apply
- Share:
- 1) a redacted SLO doc you authored
- 2) a redacted incident/runbook you wrote 3) two sentences on your biggest reliability turnaround and the gate you added afterward.
About Token MetricsToken Metrics builds AI-driven on-chain indices and analytics. Our goal is to make crypto investing simple reliable and institution-grade. Were shipping AI-automated indices integrating with venues like Pendle/DEX/CEX and preparing for public-markets readiness.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
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