Senior Protocol Engineer

Full time - Paris or London hybrid or Remote from Western EU

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Protocol Engineer at Kiln, you'll join our Infrastructure team and you will be responsible for:

• Doing technical due diligence on new protocols being evaluated for Kiln’s roadmap

• Running protocols in testnet on Kiln servers before handing them over to the Kiln Infrastructure team for mainnet / ongoing production

• Being a technical expert on relevant protocols to help answer internal and external questions on their operations — writing educational content

• Liaising with protocol foundation teams

• Representing Kiln at ecosystem events

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:

• 3+ years experience in the crypto industry. Demonstrated passion for the industry and following recent developments — with solid understanding of protocols, staking, and DeFi.

• 3+ years DevOps experience with a very strong focus on Kubernetes.

• You have run validator nodes (and not only blockchain nodes) yourself either professionally or as a hobbyist.

• Analytical mind and rigorous communication. You enjoy and are good at synthesising complex information and conveying your learnings both in oral and written format.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup/scale up environment

• Curiosity and ability to dig into a topic and take ownership to follow through.

Nice-to-have:

• 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

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.