CTO Advisor (Crypto-Native)

Job Description

We’re 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: 10–20 hrs/week (90 days), then 2–4 hrs/month • Comp: Equity + $TMAI only (no cash) • Reporting to: CEOLocation: Austin preferred; open to remote (US/EU/APAC time-zones) What You’ll 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: 3–5 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 Won’t 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-have 4+ 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-have Smart-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 authored 2) a redacted incident/runbook you wrote, 3) two sentences on your biggest reliability turnaround and the gate you added afterward. About Token MetricsToken Metrics builds AI-driven on-chain indices and analytics. Our goal is to make crypto investing simple, reliable, and institution-grade. We’re shipping AI-automated indices, integrating with venues like Pendle/DEX/CEX, and preparing for public-markets readiness.