Senior SRE / DevOps M/F
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Who are they?
Kiln makes blockchain infrastructure simple for investors and developers and accelerates the decentralization of the web.
The start-up manages over 22,000 validators With over $2billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked. We deploy our validators on 3 different clouds around the world.
Kiln’s SaaS platform supports the most important Web3 projects. That includes Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos and Tezos. Kiln deals with infrastructure, security and software topics on a daily basis.
The team is made up of ecosystem enthusiasts formerly employed at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, Polygon and others.
If your goal is to make the web more secure, stable, decentralized and fair, join Kiln.
We’ve just raised our Series A - 17M$ !
Rencontrez Laszlo, CEO
Job description
We’re looking for someone to be a Site Reliability Engineer at Kiln. In this role, you’ll be responsible for:
1) Building the product: You’ll be working closely with the Product and Infrastructure teams to plan, architect, and implement our core product. You’ll take part in the construction of the roadmap, with the rest of the team. It includes:
Use current infrastructure & ramp up on Kiln’s workflow
Actively suggest continuous improvement of Kiln’s architecture
Deploying new blockchain protocols on Kiln’s infrastructure
Assess any protocol deployment risks
Help our Software team deploy our products, and tailor our platform (AWS, K8S, Terraform) to answer their needs and our customer’s needs
2) Owning what you build:
As you architect, test, and refine the Kiln platform, you will ensure that our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly
Communicate with our Product & Sales team to make sure they understand any risk that may occur during protocol’s deployment
Make sure we respect any software security norms (Kiln is a SOC 2 Type 1 company)
3) Helping grow the Team: Everyone on the early team plays an important role in attracting, closing, and growing other talented team members. You can also mentor junior SRE/DevOps.
Our stack
Mostly in Golang with a bit of Javascript and Typescript
Smart contracts are written in Solidity
Communication between services is done using HTTP Rest and our main database is PostgreSQL.
EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) on AWS
Kubernetes / Helm
Terraform
Preferred experience
Don’t censor yourself: get in touch even if you’re not matching 100% of these points.
Skills & background
4+ years of experience working with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and with Continuous Integration / Deployment
Knowledgeable about GitOps and/or Flux
Comfortable with Terraform and Hashicorp Vault
Previous experience in infrastructure security
Strong judgment with the ability to ship opinionated architectural choices and code, and to share software best practices
Strong communication skills both in French & English
Experience designing, building, and deploying user-facing, and/or API-based products is a plus
Experience coding in Golang is a plus
Soft skills :
Curiosity and ability to dig into a topic and follow through
Team spirit: discuss, do not try to impose
Be pragmatic to not over-engineer unnecessarily: startups need to quickly adapt
Clear communication & trust: adapt to interlocutor and explain concepts
Genuine interest in blockchain/crypto
What we offer
Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
Competitive Salary
Unlimited holiday
Flexible/remote working
Choice of your IT equipments
Significant personal development and wellness budget
Recruitment process
Recruiter Phone screen (45 min) with Myriam
Take-home case study (<2h)
Technical interview (1h45 min)
Product & Cultural fit (45min)
Meeting with co-founders (30 min)
Offer