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.

Who are we?

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validator, rewards, data and commission management.

Kiln serving thousands of businesses worldwide so that everyone can securely and seamlessly stake their coins and secure decentralized protocols from our dashboard, a hardware wallet, a browser wallet, a B2B custodian, a crypto exchange or just their favorite investment app.

The team is made of ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, Polygon and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies.

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

What we offer

• A fast-paced, no bureaucracy work environment
• Equity Share Options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
• Competitive Salary
• Unlimited holiday
• Choice of IT equipments
• Flexible/remote working
• Significant personal development and wellness budget

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

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

• Recruiter Phone screen (35 min) with Myriam
• Product & Cultural fit (45min) with Thomas (co-founder and COO)
• Technical interview (1h30 min): focused on coding, code review, algorithms
• Architecture interview (45min)
• Meeting with co-founders (30 min): Ernest & Laszlo (co-founders and CPO, CEO)
• Offer