Senior SRE - Protocol

Summary

Join Kiln's Infrastructure Team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and contribute to building the future of their Validator product and deploying new blockchain protocols. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and collaborate with Product and Software Development teams. Responsibilities include deploying new blockchain protocols, architecting and maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless service communication and minimal downtime, adhering to software security norms, supporting the Software/Smart Contract team, suggesting architectural improvements, assessing deployment risks, and communicating risks to relevant teams. The role requires 5+ years of experience in Software or Infrastructure engineering, preferably in FinTech or Crypto, with a strong focus on Kubernetes and proficiency in IaC and infrastructure automation. Kiln offers a fast-paced work environment, equity share options, competitive salary, unlimited holiday, flexible remote working, choice of IT equipment, and a significant personal development budget.

Requirements

• +5 years of background experience in Software or Infrastructure , within a high standard. engineering environment — preferably FinTech or Crypto
• Proven experience as a Senior SRE with a very strong focus on Kubernetes
• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) and infrastructure automation (Helm, GitOps)
• Familiar with Prometheus and PromQL
• Familiar with infrastructure and data security (KMS, Hashicorp Vault)
• Ability to ship opinionated architectural choices and code, and to share software best practices
• All our written and company communication is in English

Responsibilities

• Deploying new blockchain protocols in accordance with the Product team
• Architect, deploy and maintain our multi-cloud infrastructure
• Ensure that our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly
• Make sure we respect any software security norms (Kiln is a SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 company)
• Continuously support our Software/Smart Contract team to ship code of quality
• Actively suggest continuous improvement of Kiln's architecture
• Assess any protocol deployment risks
• Communicate with our Product & Sales team to make sure they understand any risk that may occur during protocol deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing experience in a web3/crypto/blockchain company
• Experience in running blockchain nodes, either professionally or as a hobby
• Experience designing, building and deploying user-facing, and/or API-based products
• Previous experience working within a certified environment (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA...)

Benefits

• A fast-paced, no bureaucratic work environment
• Equity Share Options in the Business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
• Competitive Salary
• Unlimited holiday
• Flexible remote working
• Choose your IT equipment
• Significant personal development and tech conference budget