Senior Platform Engineer

Operate and improve Chronicle’s AWS and EKS infrastructure, manage Kubernetes workloads and cloud systems, strengthen reliability and security, support blockchain infrastructure, and collaborate across engineering teams.

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

• A clear path to broader technical ownership
• Direct influence over production architecture and operational practices
• Exposure to decentralized and institutional financial infrastructure
• Experienced, globally distributed engineering team
• Competitive compensation package
• Equity participation
• Flexible payment options in USD, EUR, and USDC
• 6 weeks vacation
• Remote-first environment
• Flexible working schedule
• Annual company offsites