Senior Platform Engineer

P2P; Paris; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A technology company in Paris is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its Infrastructure Team. The role involves building robust cloud infrastructure, ensuring security practices, and collaborating with various engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, expertise in Kubernetes, and a strong interest in Web3 and cryptocurrency. The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive salary.

Prestations

Equity share options

Competitive salary

Flexible holiday

Internet connection reimbursement up to €50/month

Personal development budget

Qualifications

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

Responsabilités

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Build internal tools to streamline development workflows.
• Ensure high service reliability and smooth inter-service communication.

Connaissances

Infrastructure management

Kubernetes

Terraform

Collaboration

Web3 and blockchain understanding

Outils

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Description du poste

Location

Paris

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

R&D Infrastructure

Full time - Paris hybrid or Remote from France

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 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 (DevOps, SRE) in high‑standard environments (ideally FinTech or Crypto)
• 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 #1 [Linux & Kubernetes] (120 min)
4. Technical Interview #2 [Problem solving & Debugging] (60min)
5. Core Values Interview (45 min)
6. Founders Interview (30 min)
7. 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.