Senior Platform Engineer - APAC

The role

You will build and operate secure, resilient infrastructure across global Bitcoin products and internal platforms. You will own Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and stateful production services.

What you will do

• Own production reliability during APAC operating hours
• Participate in a shared primary/secondary on-call rotation
• Build and operate GCP/GKE and hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure
• Ship reviewed, observable, and reversible production changes
• Build monitoring and alerting
• Operate stateful services and recovery mechanisms
• 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

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
• 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
• Ability to work the published APAC schedule and participate in the defined on-call rotation

Nice to have

• production GCP/GKE experience
• 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

About the company

Blockstream is the leading Bitcoin company, providing cutting-edge infrastructure solutions for enterprises, institutions, and individual Bitcoin users. They develop Bitcoin self-custody solutions, Bitcoin-based financial products, second-layer scaling technologies, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.