About this role
Blockstream was founded in 2014 by Dr. Adam Back and a group of fellow cryptographers and engineers who are passionate about Bitcoin and its potential to change the world. Today, Blockstream is the leading Bitcoin company, providing cutting-edge infrastructure solutions for enterprises, institutions, and individual Bitcoin users. We develop industry-leading Bitcoin self-custody solutions, Bitcoin-based financial products, second-layer scaling technologies, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.
Blockstream is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and operate secure, resilient infrastructure across our global Bitcoin products and internal platforms.
You will be a hands-on owner of Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and stateful production services. You will strengthen follow-the-sun operations during APAC hours, coordinate reliable handoffs with Europe, and turn operational incidents into durable automation, runbooks, and reliability improvements.
What You’ll Be Doing (Key Responsibilities):
Own production reliability during APAC operating hours, including alert triage, incident coordination, mitigation, communication, and cross-region handoffs
After onboarding and shadowing, participate in a shared primary/secondary on-call rotation with documented backup and escalation paths
Build and operate GCP/GKE and hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform, Atlantis, FluxCD, Helm, and Kustomize
Ship reviewed, observable, and reversible production changes through GitLab CI/CD and GitOps workflows
Build monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Grafana IRM; improve alert quality, SLOs, runbooks, and post-incident actions
Operate stateful services and recovery mechanisms, including PostgreSQL/CloudNativePG, WAL backups, Redis, Kafka, persistent volumes, and capacity tuning
Manage IAM, Workload Identity, secrets, artifact registries, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancers, and network policies
Automate repetitive operations using Python, Go, Bash, or similar tools
Review infrastructure changes and collaborate asynchronously with engineers across APAC, Europe, and North America
What We Look For In You (Required Qualifications):
Typically five or more years of production experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations, or equivalent demonstrated experience
Strong Kubernetes and cloud-platform experience; production GCP/GKE experience is preferred
Strong Terraform/IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD fundamentals
Solid Linux, containers, networking, DNS/TLS, IAM, and secrets-management knowledge.
Experience monitoring and responding to incidents involving distributed or stateful services
Practical scripting and automation skills.
Clear written and spoken English, with strong documentation and asynchronous handoff habits
Ability to work the published APAC schedule and participate in the defined on-call rotation
Nice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):
FluxCD, Helm, Kustomize, Atlantis, or GitLab CI
Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Grafana IRM, Loki, or Alertmanager
CloudNativePG, Barman/WAL recovery, Redis, Kafka, or GCS
Bitcoin, Elements/Liquid, electrs, Lightning, exchange-market-data, or other high-availability financial infrastructure
Hybrid/on-premises Kubernetes or security-sensitive infrastructure experience
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