Senior Platform Engineer

Paris - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Full time - Paris or London hybrid or Remote from Western EU

Kiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program #FT120 from La French Tech!

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Kiln youll join our Infrastructure team (10 engineers) to build robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. Youll collaborate with Protocol Smart Contract and Software Engineering teams to create tools and environments that ensure fast secure and reliable software delivery. This role reports to the Head of Infrastructure and plays a key part in scaling Kilns core platform.

Responsibilities:

Design deploy and maintain scalable multi-cloud & bare metal infrastructure
Build internal tools and platforms to streamline development workflows
Ensure high service reliability uptime and smooth inter-service communication
Maintain strong infrastructure security practices and compliance (SOC 2)
Improve observability alerting and performance monitoring
Guide architectural decisions and promote infrastructure best practices
Collaborate with teams to assess risk and ensure robust delivery

Stack:

Infrastructure: AWS GCP bare metal Kubernetes Terraform Terragrunt Prometheus Thanos Helm Hashicorp Vault FluxCD
Software: Golang Typescript PHP PostgreSQL Solidity
Tooling: GitHub Actions Grafana GitOps CI/CD pipelines

Requirements:

5 years in infrastructure/platform engineering in high-standard environments (FinTech a plus)
Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
Proficiency in Terraform/Terragrunt and Helm for IaC and automation
Familiar with Prometheus/PromQL and observability tooling
Experience with secure infrastructure management (e.g. Vault KMS)
Clear and confident in technical decision-making and collaboration
Proven interest in Web3 blockchain cryptocurrency with understanding of protocols staking and DeFi. Check our Tech Blog and Open-Source Contribution building internal developer platforms
Familiarity with high-availability systems at scale
Experience designing building and deploying user-facing and/or API-based products.
Previous work in SOC2 ISO 27001 or other certified environments
Experience with data tooling (BigQuery Airbyte DBT .)

About Kiln:

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade rewards platform that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings. Our API-first platform provides fully automated validators staking & DeFi protocols access and comprehensive data and commission management.

With $13 billion in crypto assets staked through our platform Kiln has established a strong presence on Ethereum managing over 4.3% of the network through 45000 validators all with zero slashing events.

Kiln serves more than 140 leading customers including Binance BitPanda Bitgo Fireblocks VanEck and TrustWallet.

Our team of 100 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google Circle Ledger Chainalysis and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.

Weve raised $30M in total funding from prominent investors including 1kx Illuminate Financial Consensys Wintermute Kraken Ventures...

Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure stable decentralized and fair!

How Kiln will support you:

A fast-paced no bureaucratic work environment
Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds we all succeed!
Competitive salary
Flexible holiday
Flexible remote working
Internet connection paid up to 50/month
Significant personal development and tech conf budget

Your interview process:

Recruiter Interview (40 min)
Take-home test (< 2 hours)
Technical Interview (90 min)
Core Values Interview (45 min)
Founders Interview (30 min)
Offer!

Please note that we are not sponsoring visas for persons without work authorization in the UK or the EU. This role is specifically for employees (no B2B or contractors) based in the EU and the UK.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Full time - Paris or London hybrid or Remote from Western EUKiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program #FT120 from La French Tech! As a Senior Platform Engineer at Kiln youll join our Infrastructure team (10 engineers) to build robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. Youll coll...