Senior SRE / DevOps H/F

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

La start-up gère plus de 8,500 validateurs avec $600M d’actifs sous gestion. Kiln déploie ses validateurs sur 3 clouds différents 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 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 venons de lever notre Série A (12.5M$) soit un total levé de 17M$ !

Permanent role - Paris or full remote from EU - 75/95k

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, tailor our platform (AWS, K8S, Terraform) to answer their needs and our customers’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

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
• Real interest about blockchain / crypto

What we offer

• Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
• Competitive Salary
• Unlimited holiday
• Flexible/remote working
• Significant personal development and wellness budget

• Recruiter Phone screen (45 min) with Myriam
• Take home case study (>2h)
• Technical interview (1h30 min)
• Product & Cultural fit (45min)
• Meeting with co-founders (30 min)
• Offer