Head of Blockchain Engineering Job Description Template

The head of blockchain engineering leads the engineering organization building on chain systems, owning delivery, technical standards, security practice and the team itself. The role balances shipping against the reality that a security failure in this domain is often unrecoverable, and much of its value lies in building a culture where engineers raise concerns rather than suppress them.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the blockchain engineering organization and its managers
• Own delivery of the engineering roadmap
• Set security and engineering standards across teams
• Own the deployment and upgrade approval process
• Build the hiring pipeline and lead senior recruitment
• Manage audit relationships and the remediation process
• Work with product and leadership on prioritization
• Lead major incident response and organizational learning from it
• Manage engineering budget and vendor relationships
• Develop engineering managers and technical leaders

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of engineering with 3+ leading teams, including blockchain
• Track record delivering secure systems that custody value
• Ability to build a culture where risk is surfaced early
• Experience hiring blockchain engineers at scale
• Command of the security practices this domain requires
• Strong prioritization and delivery discipline
• Clear communication with executives and the board
• Incident leadership under public scrutiny

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling an engineering organization rapidly
• Background in security engineering