Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Kiln's Infrastructure Team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps to build the future of their Validator product and deploy new blockchain protocols. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and collaborate with Product and Software Development teams. Responsibilities include deploying blockchain protocols, maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring service communication and minimal downtime, adhering to security norms, supporting the software team, suggesting architectural improvements, assessing deployment risks, and communicating risks to relevant teams. The role requires 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure, strong Kubernetes expertise, IaC proficiency, and fluency in French and English. Kiln offers a fast-paced environment, equity share options, competitive salary, unlimited holiday, flexible remote work, IT equipment choice, internet allowance, 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 Cyrpto
• 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
• Fluent in both French and English. All our written communication is in English

Responsibilities

• Deploy 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

• First 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
• Internet connection paid up to €50/month
• Significant personal development and tech conf budget