Senior Platform Engineer

Next Matter; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Infrastructure team. You will design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure while ensuring high reliability and security compliance. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and Terraform. This position offers competitive salary, remote work flexibility, and opportunities for personal development.

Leistungen

Equity share options

Competitive salary

Internet connection reimbursement

Flexible remote working

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering in high-standard environments.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Terraform/Terragrunt for IaC and automation.

Aufgaben

• Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cloud & bare metal infrastructure.
• Build internal tools and platforms to streamline development workflows.
• Ensure high service reliability and compliance standards.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes

Terraform

Secure infrastructure management

Web3 and blockchain understanding

Tools

AWS

GCP

GitHub Actions

Jobbeschreibung

Location

Western EU

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

R&D Infrastructure

Kiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program #FT120 from La French Tech! 🎉 🇫🇷

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Kiln, you'll join our Infrastructure team (10 engineers) to build robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with Protocol, Smart Contract and Software Engineering teams to create tools and environments that ensure fast, secure, and reliable software delivery. This role reports to the Head of Infrastructure and plays a key part in scaling Kiln’s core platform.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, multi-cloud & bare metal infrastructure.
• Build internal tools and platforms to streamline development workflows.
• Ensure high service reliability, uptime, and smooth inter-service communication.
• Maintain strong infrastructure security practices and compliance (SOC 2).
• Improve observability, alerting, and performance monitoring.
• Guide architectural decisions and promote infrastructure best practices.
• Collaborate with teams to assess risk and ensure robust delivery.

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:

• 5+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering in high-standard environments (FinTech a plus).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Terraform/Terragrunt and Helm for IaC and automation.
• Familiar with Prometheus/PromQL and observability tooling.
• Experience with secure infrastructure management (e.g. Vault, KMS).
• Clear and confident in technical decision-making and collaboration.
• Proven interest in Web3, blockchain, cryptocurrency — with understanding of protocols, staking, and DeFi. Check our Tech Blog https://www.kiln.fi/blog and Open-Source Contribution https://www.kiln.fi/open-source.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience building internal developer platforms.
• 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.
• Experience with data tooling (BigQuery, Airbyte, DBT, …).

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 100 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.
• Flexible holiday.
• Flexible remote working.
• Internet connection paid up to €50/month.
• Significant personal development and tech conf budget.

Your interview process:

1. Recruiter Interview (40 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!

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.