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Industry Principal Architect, Web3

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6 days ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Advise C-level executives, protocol founders, and chief architects across strategic Web3 accounts and financial institutions in APAC.
  • Design, validate, and document enterprise architectures integrating decentralized protocols with cloud infrastructure, including RPC node clusters, validator operations, indexing pipelines, and confidential key management.
  • Create reusable technical assets, reference implementations, and architectural whitepapers for Customer Engineering and Partner teams.
  • Connect customer field requirements with Google Cloud product management and engineering to influence feature prioritization and product roadmaps.
  • Guide customers on risk, security, and compliance architectures for virtual assets in alignment with regional regulatory frameworks such as HKMA and SFC requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience in system architecture, distributed systems design, or cloud infrastructure in an enterprise customer-facing or technical leadership role.
  • At least 4 years of experience architecting, deploying, or operating production-grade Web3 systems, blockchain protocols, or smart contract ecosystems.
  • Preferred experience with institutional digital-asset infrastructure, MPC, Cloud HSM, transaction signing, and confidential computing.
  • Preferred experience operating blockchain node infrastructure, indexing layers, and validator networks at scale on Kubernetes/GKE.
  • Preferred experience with ZK infrastructure, rollups, cross-chain messaging, DePIN, smart contract engineering, protocol security audits, and formal verification frameworks.
  • Preferred knowledge of RWA tokenization, stablecoin rails, tokenized deposits, and custody architectures in regulated financial environments.

Tech Stack

Google CloudKubernetes

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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