Senior Platform Engineer - APAC

About the role

Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure company founded in 2014, is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate secure, resilient infrastructure across its global Bitcoin products and internal platforms. The role is a hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, GitOps, observability and stateful production services, strengthening follow-the-sun operations during APAC hours and turning operational incidents into automation and runbooks.

Key responsibilities

• Own production reliability during APAC hours, including alert triage, incident coordination, mitigation, communication and cross-region handoffs
• After onboarding and shadowing, join 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, and improve alert quality, SLOs, runbooks and post-incident actions
• Operate stateful services and recovery mechanisms such as 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 with Python, Go, Bash or similar tools, and review infrastructure changes with colleagues across APAC, Europe and North America

Required profile

• Typically five or more years of production experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or infrastructure operations, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Experience monitoring and responding to incidents involving distributed or stateful services
• Clear written and spoken English, with strong documentation and asynchronous handoff habits
• Ability to work the published APAC schedule and the defined on-call rotation

Required skills

• Strong Kubernetes and cloud-platform experience; production GCP/GKE experience preferred
• Terraform/IaC, GitOps and CI/CD fundamentals
• Solid Linux, containers, networking, DNS/TLS, IAM and secrets-management knowledge
• Practical scripting and automation skills

Nice to have: FluxCD, Helm, Kustomize, Atlantis, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, CloudNativePG, Redis, Kafka, Bitcoin-related infrastructure, and hybrid/on-premises Kubernetes or security-sensitive infrastructure experience.