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Token MetricsTM

CTO Advisor (Crypto-Native)

We are a cryptocurrency investment research firm that uses AI and Machine learning along with our set of data scientists, quant traders, and crypto native research analysts to provide timely insights on more than 6,000 crypto and NFT projects.

Token Metrics

Employee count: 11-50

United States only
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.

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We are a cryptocurrency investment research firm that uses AI and Machine learning along with our set of data scientists, quant traders, and crypto native research analysts to provide timely insights on more than 6,000 crypto and NFT projects.

Founded in 2018 by Ian Balina, Token Metrics is headquartered in Austin, Texas, we are happy to serve more than 5,000 customers from more than 50 countries.

Our mission is to create the single best crypto analytics platform available anywhere, while also ensuring our products are accessible to everyone – even those on a tight budget.

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