Engineering Team Lead, Rollups

Conduit

At Conduit, we're building the crypto-native cloud platform that will scale Ethereum.

Crypto builders have been held back by a lack of onchain compute — without the ability to process a high volume of transactions quickly and cheaply, onchain apps and ecosystems can’t build high quality user experiences.

Rollups have emerged as the answer to this problem. Just as servers work together to scale compute in web2, so too can rollups scale onchain compute in web3. But building and operating your own rollup is difficult and time-consuming. That's where Conduit comes in.

As the rollup-native cloud platform, Conduit combines web2 engineering best-practices with web3 rollup technology to make it easy for anyone to launch and maintain their own chain. By making infrastructure simple and onchain compute abundant, similar to how AWS and GCP did for web2, we can unlock the next wave of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

The Conduit platform has seen massive growth since going live in 2023. We run the largest chains in production, including Proof of Play, Zora, Aevo, and more. This translates to 200+ chains across mainnet and testnet and over $1B in total-value-locked (TVL). We're operating on the bleeding edge of crypto, co-evolving with our customers and integration partners, and pushing the limits of blockchain scalability and modularity.

This success has been recognized and accelerated through a $37M Series A, co-led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures — two of the best investors in the industry.

We’re an elite team that’s previously worked at Meta, Brex, Wish, Compound, Chainalysis, Immunefi, Amazon, Avara/Aave, Paradigm, and more. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, with team members all over the world.

We’re looking for ambitious, talented builders that want to help scale Ethereum and bring crypto compute to the masses. Join us!

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Languages: Go, Python, Typescript, Rust, Solidity

• Infra: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines

• Datastores: Postgres, Redis, Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

We value strong engineering fundamentals and a capacity to learn new tools quickly.