About The 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 handoffsAfter onboarding and shadowing, participate in a shared primary/secondary on-call rotation with documented backup and escalation pathsBuild and operate GCP/GKE and hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform, Atlantis, FluxCD, Helm, and KustomizeShip reviewed, observable, and reversible production changes through GitLab CI/CD and GitOps workflowsBuild monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Grafana IRM; improve alert quality, SLOs, runbooks, and post-incident actionsOperate stateful services and recovery mechanisms, including PostgreSQL/CloudNativePG, WAL backups, Redis, Kafka, persistent volumes, and capacity tuningManage IAM, Workload Identity, secrets, artifact registries, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancers, and network policiesAutomate repetitive operations using Python, Go, Bash, or similar toolsReview infrastructure changes and collaborate asynchronously with engineers across APAC, Europe, and North AmericaWhat 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 experienceStrong Kubernetes and cloud-platform experience; production GCP/GKE experience is preferredStrong Terraform/IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD fundamentalsSolid Linux, containers, networking, DNS/TLS, IAM, and secrets-management knowledge.Experience monitoring and responding to incidents involving distributed or stateful servicesPractical scripting and automation skills.Clear written and spoken English, with strong documentation and asynchronous handoff habitsAbility to work the published APAC schedule and participate in the defined on-call rotationNice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):FluxCD, Helm, Kustomize, Atlantis, or GitLab CIPrometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Grafana IRM, Loki, or AlertmanagerCloudNativePG, Barman/WAL recovery, Redis, Kafka, or GCSBitcoin, Elements/Liquid, electrs, Lightning, exchange-market-data, or other high-availability financial infrastructureHybrid/on-premises Kubernetes or security-sensitive infrastructure experience🔒 Stay Safe from Job ScamsAll official Blockstream communication will come from an @blockstream.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at <[email hidden]>. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.