TL;DR

CTO Advisor (Crypto): Advising on stabilizing reliability, implementing SDLC, SRE, and MLOps practices, and creating operational runbooks and dashboards. Focus on establishing release gates, SLOs, error budgets, and coaching engineering leads without direct management responsibilities.

Location: Austin, TX preferred; open to remote (US/EU/APAC time-zones)

Company

%hirify_global% builds AI-driven on-chain indices and analytics to simplify and institutionalize crypto investing.

What you will do

Establish release gates in CI/CD pipelines and rollback triggers.
Implement SRE fundamentals including SLOs and error-budget policies.
Enforce change and exception logs; drive post-mortems with action items.
Collaborate with Quant team to harden AI index safety and monitoring.
Create runbooks and dashboards; coach engineering leads for system handoff.

Requirements

Must have 4+ years leading engineering in crypto (protocol/DeFi, exchange, market/data infra, or comparable)
Proven SDLC/DevOps/CI-CD and SRE experience (SLOs, error budgets, incident response)
Experience with data/ML systems or MLOps basics (versioning, parity tests, safe rollout)
Excellent technical writing and asynchronous collaboration skills.
Location: Austin preferred; open to remote in US/EU/APAC time zones

Nice to have

Smart-contract security/audit handoffs; keys/secrets/multisig hygiene.
Experience with index/market-data pipelines or exchange connectivity.

Culture & Benefits

Part-time advisor role with flexible hours (10–20 hrs/week initially, then 2–4 hrs/month)
Compensation in equity and $TMAI tokens only (no cash)
Remote work allowed across multiple time zones