Platform Architect

Menlo Park, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 20 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

Blockstream was founded in 2014 by Dr. Adam Back and a group of fellow cryptographers and engineers who are passionate about Bitcoin and its potential to change the world. Today Blockstream is the leading Bitcoin company providing cutting-edge infrastructure solutions for enterprises institutions and individual Bitcoin users. We develop industry-leading Bitcoin self-custody solutions Bitcoin-based financial products second-layer scaling technologies and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.

Blockstream is seeking a Platform Architect to define and evolve the architectural foundation of our core platforms. This role is responsible for end-to-end system design ensuring scalability reliability security and developer efficiency across Blockstreams infrastructure and product ecosystem.

You will work closely with engineering security product and leadership to design distributed systems that support high-value financial use cases while upholding Bitcoins core principles of decentralization and trust minimization.

What Youll Be Doing (Responsibilities):

Own the architecture and technical vision for Blockstreams platform and shared services
Design scalable secure and fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting Bitcoin Layer-2 and enterprise products
Define platform standards for APIs data models service boundaries and infrastructure patterns
Partner with engineering teams to guide implementation review designs and resolve complex technical challenges
Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure defense-in-depth key management and operational resilience
Evaluate and introduce new technologies while balancing innovation with operational maturity
Ensure platform designs support regulatory enterprise and institutional requirements without compromising decentralization principles
Document architectural decisions tradeoffs and long-term technical roadmaps
Mentor senior engineers and help raise the overall architectural rigor across teams

What We Look For in You (Required Qualifications):

5 years of experience designing and operating large-scale platforms or infrastructure systems
6-8 years of development experience building production-grade backend with strong security boundaries authentication authorization key management as well as designing APIs data models and distributed services that run reliably at scale.
Proven experience as a Platform Architect Principal Engineer or Senior Systems Architect
Deep understanding of distributed systems including consensus fault tolerance replication and networking
Strong experience with cloud and/or hybrid infrastructure (AWS GCP bare metal Kubernetes Terraform etc.)
Expertise in security-critical systems including authentication authorization cryptography and key management
Experience designing high-availability systems for financial or mission-critical applications
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Comfort working in a remote globally distributed team

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications):

Hands-on experience with Bitcoin Lightning Liquid or blockchain infrastructure
Experience contributing to open-source projects
Familiarity with HSMs secure enclaves or hardware-backed key storage
Background in fintech capital markets or institutional financial systems
Experience balancing enterprise requirements with decentralized architectures

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Required Experience:

Staff IC

What Youll Be Doing (Responsibilities):

Own the architecture and technical vision for Blockstreams platform and shared services
Design scalable secure and fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting Bitcoin Layer-2 and enterprise products
Define platform standards for APIs data models service boundaries and infrastructure patterns
Partner with engineering teams to guide implementation review designs and resolve complex technical challenges
Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure defense-in-depth key management and operational resilience
Evaluate and introduce new technologies while balancing innovation with operational maturity
Ensure platform designs support regulatory enterprise and institutional requirements without compromising decentralization principles
Document architectural decisions tradeoffs and long-term technical roadmaps
Mentor senior engineers and help raise the overall architectural rigor across teams

What We Look For in You (Required Qualifications):

5 years of experience designing and operating large-scale platforms or infrastructure systems
6-8 years of development experience building production-grade backend with strong security boundaries authentication authorization key management as well as designing APIs data models and distributed services that run reliably at scale.
Proven experience as a Platform Architect Principal Engineer or Senior Systems Architect
Deep understanding of distributed systems including consensus fault tolerance replication and networking
Strong experience with cloud and/or hybrid infrastructure (AWS GCP bare metal Kubernetes Terraform etc.)
Expertise in security-critical systems including authentication authorization cryptography and key management
Experience designing high-availability systems for financial or mission-critical applications
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Comfort working in a remote globally distributed team

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications):