Senior SRE – Platform x3 -remote $105K – $152K- France or UK

Description

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

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Platform 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

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 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!

Compensation & Package

How Kiln will support you:

At Kiln, our values drive us: Technical Excellence ensures top security and usability; Innovation-Driven Meritocracy elevates groundbreaking ideas; Trust and Transparency build reliability through open communication; and People First keeps our team and clients at the heart of everything we do.

• A fast-paced, bureaucracy-free work environment
• 15% OKR Bonus (7.5% on company performance & 7.5% on team performance)
• Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
• Competitive salary
• Flexible holiday
• Flexible remote working
• Internet connection paid
• Significant personal development budget (books, training)
• Overseas tech conferences budget

Interview Process

1.Recruiter / HR Call

2.Take Home Test

3.Technical Interview

4.Behavioural Interview

Core Values Interview

5.Founder / CEO Interview

Key point:

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

Experience with secure infrastructure management (e.g. Vault, KMS)

Familiar with Prometheus/PromQL and observability tooling

Location

Remote – France or UK

About

Democratizing value creation in digital assets | French Tech 120

Company Size 51-200

Headquarters France

https://www.kiln.fi/

Recruiting Tips

The preference on location is a tiered approach.

1. Paris (Hybrid)
2. France (Remote)
3. London (Hybrid)
4. UK Remote
5. Western Europe (they have to be very strong – there will be a higher bar when interviewing).

Ideal profile are candidates with DevOps or site reliability backgrounds over software development. Web3 experience is preferred but not strictly mandatory if the candidate is highly skilled in other areas.