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Senior SRE / DevOps

Kiln is hiring!

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Kiln rend l’infrastructure blockchain simple pour les investisseurs et les développeurs, en accélérant la décentralisation du web.

La start-up gère plus de 56,000 validateurs avec plus de $11B d’actifs sous gestion. Kiln déploie ses validateurs sur différents clouds partout dans le monde.

La plateforme SaaS de Kiln supporte les projets Web3 les plus importants comme Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, Tezos et bien d'autres, en composant avec des problématiques d’infrastructure, de sécurité et de software au quotidien.

L’équipe est composée de 90 passionnés de l’écosystème anciennement employés chez Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, Polygon et d'autres.

Si votre objectif est de rendre le web plus sécurisé, stable, décentralisé et juste, rejoignez Kiln!

Kiln est en effet toujours à la recherche de personnes passionnées partageant ses valeurs et son enthousiasme pour le Web3.

Nous avons levé en janvier 2024 notre extension de Série A (12.5M$) soit un total levé de 35M$ !

NOUVEAU : Kiln fait partie de la Promotion 2025 du French Tech Next40/120!

Job Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps at Kiln, you will join our Infrastructure Team, composed of 10 Engineers, to build the future of our Validator product [https://www.kiln.fi/kiln-validators] and deploy new blockchain protocols. You will report to our Head of Infrastructure, and collaborate with both the Product and Software Development teams to provide internal tools and services and contribute to the continuous improvement of Kiln’s Infrastructure-as-Code.

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.

Stack:

  • Infrastructure: AWS/GCP + baremetal, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Prometheus/Thanos, Helm, Hashicorp Vault, FluxCD

  • Software: Golang, Typescript, PostgreSQL

  • Smart-Contract: Solidity, Foundry, OpenZeppelin

Preferred Experience

  • +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.

    Nice-to-have:

    • 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...)

Recruitment Process

  1. Recruiter Interview (45 min)

  2. Take-home test (< 2 hours)

  3. Technical Interview (90 min)

  4. Core Values Interview (45 min)

  5. Founders Interview (30 min)

  6. Offer!

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Experience: > 5 years
  • Possible full remote
  • Salary: between 85000€ and 100000€ / year
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