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
šLead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering a strong sense of ownership, trust, and collaboration across time zones. šOwn the delivery of robust, secure, and scalable systems, balancing reliability with rapid iteration in a high-availability blockchain infrastructure context. šCollaborate closely with Product, Design, and Protocol teams to translate strategic objectives into well-executed engineering initiatives. šGuide architectural and technical decisions, particularly in areas involving infrastructure, validator orchestration, blockchain integrations, and distributed systems. šEstablish and improve engineering processes, ensuring high velocity, consistent quality, and strong incident management practices. šSupport individual growth through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, and clear career development planning. šHire and onboard top-tier engineering talent, contributing to a world-class remote-first engineering culture. šFoster a culture of operational excellence, encouraging documentation, automation, observability, and continuous improvement across the delivery pipeline. šEnsure strong communication practices, proactively surfacing progress, risks, and dependencies to internal and external stakeholders.
Stack:
šSoftware: Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, REST APIā¦ šSmart-contract: Solidity, Foundry šInfrastructure: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes
Requirements
š5+ years of experience in engineering management, leading cross-functional backend or infrastructure teams in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. š2+ years of experience managing remote engineering teams, with the ability to foster collaboration, accountability, and a sense of belonging. šExcellent people management skills, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development. šEffective communication and stakeholder alignment, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business implications and vice versa. šBias for action and ownership, you thrive in environments where initiative and autonomy are expected.
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