Senior SRE - Protocol

Full time - London or Paris Hybrid or remote from UK/EU + equity

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer working on Blockchain Protocols at Kiln, you will join our Infrastructure Team, composed of 10 Engineers, to build the future of our Validator product [https://www.kiln.fi/kiln-validators] and deploy new blockchain protocols.

You will report to our Head of Infrastructure and collaborate with both the Product and Software Development teams to provide internal tools and services and contribute to the continuous improvement of Kiln’s Infrastructure-as-Code.

Responsibilities:

• Deploying new blockchain protocols in accordance with the Product team.

• Architect, deploy and maintain our multi-cloud infrastructure.

• Ensure that our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly.

• Make sure we respect any software security norms (Kiln is a SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 company).

• Continuously support our Software/Smart Contract team to ship code of quality.

• Actively suggest continuous improvement of Kiln's architecture.

• Assess any protocol deployment risks.

• Communicate with our Product & Sales team to make sure they understand any risk that may occur during protocol deployment.

Stack:

• Infrastructure: AWS/GCP + baremetal, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Prometheus/Thanos, Helm, Hashicorp Vault, FluxCD

• Software: Golang, Typescript, PostgreSQL

• Smart-Contract: Solidity, Foundry, OpenZeppelin

Requirements:

• +5 years of background experience in Software or Infrastructure, within a high standard. engineering environment — preferably FinTech or Crypto.

• Proven experience as a Senior SRE with a very strong focus on Kubernetes.

• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) and infrastructure automation (Helm, GitOps).

• Familiar with Prometheus and PromQL

• Familiar with infrastructure and data security (KMS, Hashicorp Vault).

• Ability to ship opinionated architectural choices and code, and to share software best practices.

• All our written and company communication is in English.

Nice-to-have:

• Existing experience in a web3/crypto/blockchain company.

• Experience in running blockchain nodes, either professionally or as a hobby.

• Experience designing, building and deploying user-facing, and/or API-based products.

• Previous experience working within a certified environment (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA...)

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 45,000+ validators — all with zero slashing events.

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

Our team of 90 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.

We've raised $30M in total funding from prominent investors including 1kx, Crypto.com, 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

• Unlimited holiday

• Flexible remote working

• Choose your IT equipment

• Significant personal development and tech conference budget

Your interview process:

1. Recruiter Interview (45 min)

2. Take-home test (< 2 hours)

3. Technical Interview (90 min)

4. Core Values Interview (45 min)

5. Founders Interview (30 min)

6. Offer!

We aim to keep this process within 3 weeks E2E. We understand this process won't be right for everyone, please let us know if you would like any amendments made alongside your application.

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.

We look forward to your application and aim to get back to you within a week, most likely sooner.