About the company
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 validators, rewards, and data and commission management. With over $4+ billion crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as we run over 4% of the network; this includes 30,000+ validators with 0 slashing events. The team is made up of over 52 ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies. Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair!
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
📍Perform technical due diligence on new protocols being considered for Kiln’s roadmap. 📍Own the end-to-end integration of new protocols, configure and run validator nodes from testnet to mainnet. 📍Deploy and operate high-availability validator nodes infrastructures across multi-cloud/bare metal Kubernetes environments. 📍Actively contribute to IaC improvements: observability and monitoring, scaling and performance, security and compliance, incident response and debugging. 📍Act as the technical expert for your protocol domains and promote best practices for validator operations. 📍Participate in Kiln’s protocol adoption strategy: provide insight to Product and GTM teams, liaise with protocol foundations teams, and represent Kiln in ecosystems and events.
Stack
📍Protocols: https://docs.kiln.fi/v1/kiln-products/validators/protocols 📍Infrastructure: AWS/GCP/bare metal, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm… 📍Tooling: GitHub Actions, FluxCD, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana…
Requirements
đź“Ť4+ years of experience as DevOps/SRE, with strong focus on Infrastructure-as-Code and Kubernetes. đź“Ť1+ years of experience in blockchain / crypto engineering, with strong understanding of Proof-of-Stake and validator operations. đź“ŤHands-on experience running validator nodes; professionally or as a hobbyist. đź“ŤStrong troubleshooting and debugging skills; ability to dive deep into blockchain protocol and infra-level issues. đź“ŤClear communication and confident technical decision-making; ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.
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