Senior Protocol 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!

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Protocol Engineer at Kiln youll join our Infrastructure team and you will be responsible for:

Doing technical due diligence on new protocols being evaluated for Kilns roadmap
Running protocols in testnet on Kiln servers before handing them over to the Kiln Infrastructure team for mainnet / ongoing production
Being a technical expert on relevant protocols to help answer internal and external questions on their operations writing educational content
Liaising with protocol foundation teams
Representing Kiln at ecosystem events

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:

3 years experience in the crypto industry. Demonstrated passion for the industry and following recent developments with solid understanding of protocols staking and DeFi.
3 years DevOps experience with a very strong focus on Kubernetes.
You have run validator nodes (and not only blockchain nodes) yourself either professionally or as a hobbyist.
Analytical mind and rigorous communication. You enjoy and are good at synthesising complex information and conveying your learnings both in oral and written format.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup/scale up environment
Curiosity and ability to dig into a topic and take ownership to follow through.

Nice-to-have:

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

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! Responsibilities:As a Senior Protocol Engineer at Kiln youll join our Infrastructure team and you will be responsible for:Doing technical due diligen...