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Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Build and run AWS/EKS infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, and blockchain node services using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps while improving reliability, observability, and security.

You operate and improve AWS and EKS infrastructure and manage Kubernetes workloads, networking, IAM, storage, and compute through Terraform, Helm, and GitOps. You improve CI/CD safety, observability, reliability, incident response, recovery procedures, and operational automation. You operate oracle infrastructure, RPC nodes, relayers, signing services, data workloads, and messaging systems while applying security controls and maintaining technical documentation. You collaborate across engineering disciplines, review infrastructure changes, and own platform work from investigation through follow-up.

Responsibilities

  • Operate and improve AWS and EKS infrastructure
  • Manage Kubernetes workloads, networking, IAM, storage, and compute through Terraform, Helm, and GitOps
  • Improve CI/CD safety, traceability, rollback practices, and operational automation
  • Support platform upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and architecture changes
  • Maintain observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerts
  • Improve service health checks, alert quality, reliability targets, and recovery procedures
  • Provide scheduled production on-call coverage
  • Reduce recurring incidents and technical or human single points of failure
  • Operate oracle infrastructure, RPC nodes, relayers, signing services, and data workloads
  • Support messaging systems such as Kafka and NATS
  • Investigate failures across cloud services, applications, external dependencies, and blockchain networks
  • Apply access control, secrets management, change management, and infrastructure security practices
  • Maintain records for production changes, privileged access, and recovery procedures
  • Support customer, security, and audit-related technical reviews
  • Maintain architecture documents, runbooks, handovers, and operational procedures
  • Distribute critical knowledge through documentation, pairing, walkthroughs, and reviews
  • Collaborate with DevOps, on-chain, off-chain, and full-stack engineers
  • Own infrastructure work from investigation through deployment and follow-up
  • Review changes for reliability, security, maintainability, performance, and cost
  • Shape platform priorities around production risks and recurring engineering needs

Requirements

  • Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure
  • Hands-on production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and IAM
  • Practical knowledge of Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and CI/CD
  • Experience operating observability systems and participating in on-call, incident response, and recovery work
  • Ability to automate operational tasks using Go, Python, Bash, or a comparable language
  • Understanding of distributed systems, security, and event-driven architectures
  • Clear written communication and disciplined documentation and handover practices
  • Ability to work autonomously across a globally distributed engineering team
  • Based in the Central European time zone and able to work primarily within CET/CEST business hours

Benefits

  • Equity participation
  • Flexible payment options in USD, EUR, and USDC
  • 6 weeks vacation
  • Remote-first environment
  • Flexible working schedule
  • Annual company offsites

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