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# Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform at Ava Labs

- **Company:** Ava Labs
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ava-labs/f57707fb-9826-4491-8df6-b8a3f94c5b30

## Job description

Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform. Lead the engineering org building Fortary's institutional digital asset platform: custody, trading, lending, staking, and treasury management for regulated financial institutions. You'll own the architecture and technical strategy for our distributed MPC custody system, grow the team, and partner with Product, Security, and executive leadership to ship secure, resilient infrastructure at institutional scale.

This is a leadership role at the intersection of distributed systems, applied cryptography, and institutional finance. You set technical direction, you're accountable for what ships, and you build the org that ships it.

## What you'll do

- Lead multiple teams delivering Fortary's custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integrations
- Own the architecture and roadmap for the distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, and transaction policy controls
- Partner with Product, Security, BD, and executives to prioritize investments against customer, regulatory, and business needs
- Support multiple deployment models: managed platform and licensed software
- Ensure engineering practices meet the security, compliance, and governance bar required as Fortary moves toward chartered-institution status
- Lead incident response for outages, security events, and key management scenarios
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the org

## What you'll bring

- 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ leading teams shipping production-scale secure distributed systems
- Track record owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architecture through production
- Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key management: MPC, threshold signatures, TEEs, HSMs
- Experience building cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability) with security and resilience as first-order concerns
- Fluency in the compliance frameworks for regulated finance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, AML/KYC, and awareness of the SEC/CFTC/OCC/MiCA landscape
- Experience across digital asset infrastructure: custody, trading, staking, treasury, and blockchain settlement
- Ability to communicate credibly with executives, institutional customers, auditors, and regulators

Bonus

- Experience scaling an org toward a chartered or licensed financial entity

(**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

- Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products

(**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

WHY AVA LABS? If you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others.

Ava Labs is committed to diversity in the workplace and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

## About Ava Labs

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Blockchain infrastructure, Web3, decentralized finance (DeFi), enterprise blockchain solutions
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, developers, and projects building on Avalanche; also B2C through the Core wallet
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world's assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform."

## Products & Services
- **[Avalanche]**: High-performance blockchain network (smart contract platform) designed for scalability, low latency, and low transaction costs. Supports custom blockchains (subnets) and is used for DeFi, gaming, and enterprise applications.
- **[AvaCloud]**: Fully managed, custom blockchain launchpad – enables organizations to deploy production-ready blockchains in minutes without managing infrastructure.
- **[Core Wallet]**: Native digital asset wallet (browser extension and mobile) for managing assets, staking, and interacting with Avalanche dApps.
- **[Avalanche Policy Coalition]**: Educational resource providing information on blockchain and Web3 fundamentals, applications, and policy for regulators and the public.
- **[Fortary]**: Institutional custody solution (product under development) for secure digital asset storage and management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $640M (as of latest ICO in September 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Dragonfly Capital, NGC Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Mastercard (program partnership)
- **Growth Signals**: 195 employees (+3.1% YoY); operates in 26 countries; active job postings (5 as of mid-2026); growing ecosystem of projects on Avalanche; recent focus on institutional custody (Fortary)

## Competitive Advantages
- **High-performance architecture**: Avalanche is one of the fastest smart contract platforms (sub-second finality, high throughput) – a key differentiator vs. Ethereum and other L1s.
- **Custom subnet capability**: Allows enterprises and projects to launch their own sovereign blockchains with customizable rules, fee models, and validators.
- **Strong academic and engineering pedigree**: Founded by Cornell computer scientists; team includes experts from top tech and finance firms.
- **Deep ecosystem backing**: Supported by major crypto VCs and a large community of developers and projects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitizing real‑world assets**: Continuing to expand the use of Avalanche for tokenizing securities, real estate, and other traditional assets.
- **Institutional custody (Fortary)**: Building secure, compliant custody solutions to attract financial institutions and large asset managers.
- **Ecosystem growth**: Supporting builders on Avalanche through grants, partnerships, and the AvaCloud platform to accelerate adoption.
- **Global expansion**: Strengthening presence in key regions (Asia, Europe, Middle East) through local teams and university engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes shared vision, integrity, community, innovation, and decisive action. Team is described as “intensely exciting and supportive” with a focus on ethical, sustainable solutions.
- **Remote & hybrid policy**: Remote‑first with offices in New York City (Brooklyn) and Miami. Employees have flexible on‑site expectations; offices serve as collaboration hubs.
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive insurance (short‑/long‑term disability, life insurance), 401k (non‑matching), commuter benefits, unlimited PTO, volunteer time‑off, team activities, and remote‑friendly networking.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack (Rust, Go, Solidity, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker). Strong emphasis on science‑fueled innovation and learning from mistakes.
- **Global team**: Employees across 26 countries; talent sourced from top companies like Coinbase, AWS, Lyft, and Cornell Blockchain.

## Sources
1. [avalabs.org – About & Careers](https://www.avalabs.org/)
2. [avalabs.org – Careers Page](https://www.avalabs.org/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Ava Labs Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avalabsofficial)
4. [Built In – Ava Labs Profile](https://builtin.com/company/ava-labs)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board – Ava Labs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avalabs?gh_src=9a15c6d64us)

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