Head of Developer Experience

Who We Are:
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world – and we’re building the products and services to make that future a reality.

Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.

We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.

Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

To learn more about our businesses and products, visit www.galaxy.com.

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Seek Excellence.

• Be Selective To Be Effective.

• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.

• Disagree Transparently.

• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.

• Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are:

You’re a highly technical and execution-driven Development Experience Leader looking to own and elevate the end-to-end software delivery experience across the organization. This role requires deep empathy for developers, a strong understanding of modern engineering workflows, and the ability to remove friction at scale. You will lead our CI/CD engineering function, drive the strategy for fully automated touchless deployments into production, and ensure all platform designs meet stringent Disaster Recovery (DR) and resiliency requirements.

You will partner closely with engineering, security, infrastructure, and product to build a world-class developer platform tailored for high-velocity teams operating in a regulated, security-sensitive financial or crypto environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the primary champion of developer experience, setting a long-term DevEx vision and roadmap.

• Work directly with engineers to deeply understand pain points, workflow inefficiencies, and systemic barriers to productivity.

• Translate developer problems into scalable tooling, automation, and platform features.

• Lead and mentor a high-performing CI/CD engineering team responsible for all build, deploy, and release automation.

• Architect and deliver a frictionless, touchless deployment platform supporting rapid, safe, auditable releases into production.

• Implement industry-grade release automation, rollback strategies, environment standardization, and compliance guardrails.

• Ensure all developer platforms, pipelines, and supporting infrastructure meet rigorous availability, continuity, and DR requirements.

• Partner with SRE and Infra teams to build resilient, self-healing, observable systems.

• Own the creation and maintenance of internal developer tools, SDKs, frameworks, and automation.

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of development infrastructure.

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across teams, including documentation and training.

• Partner with Security to embed secure-by-default patterns into the platform.

• Partner with Product to align DevEx improvements with business priorities.

• Work with leadership to define KPIs for developer productivity and continuously measure impact.

What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including senior-level ownership of DevEx, Developer Platforms, DevOps, or CI/CD.

• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams.

• Expert-level proficiency in Python, Go, Bash or similar languages.

• Deep experience with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).

• Mastery of modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, FluxCD, Harness).

• Strong background in production release automation, deployment safety, rollback strategy, and release governance.

• Experience in financial services, crypto, or other regulated, high-security environments.

• Strong communication skills and ability to operate across a broad technical and executive audience.

• Highly execution-driven with a track record of delivering measurable improvements.

Bonus Points:

• Advanced expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with developer-facing observability and telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

• Experience building internal platforms or paved-road developer workflows.

• Proficiency with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, and productivity-focused AI tooling.

• Experience with artifact management platforms (JFrog Artifactory).

• Proven track record of driving cultural adoption of DevOps, automation, and resilient design.

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus

• Flexible Time Off (i.e. unlimited paid vacation days)

• Company paid Holidays (11)

• Company paid sick leave

• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents

• 3% 401(k) company contribution

• Competitive family planning benefits for US employees

• Generous paid Parental Leave

• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace

• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry

• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues

• Employee Resource Groups

Apply now and join us on our mission to engineer a new economic paradigm.

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital or partnership or caregiver status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].