Were seeking a hands-on CTO Advisor to stabilize reliability (stop regressions, reduce Sev-1s), install a lightweight SDLC / SRE / MLOps cadence, and leave behind simple runbooks and dashboards the team can operate.
This is an advisor role (not a line-manager) : you design gates, coach leads, and facilitate incident and release hygiene.
Type : Advisor (contract)
Time : 1020 hrs / week (90 days), then 24 hrs / month
Comp : Equity + $TMAI only (no cash)
Reporting to : CEO Location : Austin preferred; open to remote (US / EU / APAC time-zones)
What Youll Do (Responsibilities)
- Establish release gates in CI / CD (tests / coverage, static checks, feature flags, canary / shadow) and clear rollback / kill-switch triggers.
- Implement SRE fundamentals : 35 SLOs (e.g., data freshness, job success rate, API latency / availability, exception closure time) with an error-budget policy.
- Enforce Change & Exceptions Logs ; drive post-mortems (Sev-1 / 2) with action items and owners.
- Pair with Quant to harden AI index safety (model / versioning, parity tests, drift / health alerts).
- Produce concise runbooks & dashboards ; coach engineering leads; hand back the system.
What You Wont Do (Scope guardrails)
No day-to-day people management or sprint ownership.No wallet signatory or payment approvals.No changes to liquidity or emissions policy (owned by the $TMAI council).Qualifications
Must-have4+ years leading engineering in crypto (protocol / DeFi, exchange, market / data infra, or comparable).Proven SDLC / DevOps / CI-CD and SRE practice (SLOs + error budgets + incident response).Experience shipping data / ML systems or MLOps basics (versioning, parity tests, safe rollout).Excellent technical writing and async collaboration.Nice-to-haveSmart-contract security / audit handoffs; keys / secrets / multisig hygiene.Prior work with index / market-data pipelines or exchange connectivity.Success Metrics (first 90 days)
Reliability : measurable reduction in failures (e.g., Sev-1 / MTTR 20%; regression escapes 30%).Hygiene : 100% prod changes pre-logged; Sev-1 post-mortems with actions 72h; SLOs live and reported monthly.Adoption : release gates and runbooks in use by named owners without advisor involvement.Collaboration
Operating Chair (monthly business review), Quant (AI indices), $TMAI observers (liquidity dependencies), Finance & Controls (audit evidence).How to Apply
Share :1) a redacted SLO doc you authored2) a redacted incident / runbook you wrote, 3) two sentences on your biggest reliability turnaround and the gate you added afterward.About Token Metrics Token Metrics builds AI-driven on-chain indices and analytics. Our goal is to make crypto investing simple, reliable, and institution-grade. Were shipping AI-automated indices, integrating with venues like Pendle / DEX / CEX, and preparing for public-markets readiness.
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