Senior Platform Engineer (Blockchain)

Location: London Office, hybrid

Company

hirify.global provides a blockchain data platform powered by deep blockchain data and AI, helping organizations investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and build solutions for the digital-asset ecosystem.

What you will do

• Design, operate, and improve highly available platform services, including managed Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, CI/CD systems, artifact management, and shared infrastructure.
• Build secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS and other cloud environments using infrastructure as code and repeatable automation.
• Improve production reliability through SLOs, graceful degradation, self-healing, automated recovery, observability, and incident response.
• Create self-service workflows and platform abstractions that reduce cognitive load for R&D engineering teams.
• Partner with Information Security, Cost Optimization, Developer Productivity, and R&D teams on technical standards, cloud efficiency, and the platform roadmap.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production infrastructure in AWS, including IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, Lambda, VPC, and networking.
• Experience administering and scaling multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and Kafka in production, including upgrades, workload isolation, reliability, security, and incident response.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, pipeline as code, containerization, and cloud-native tools such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing observability for production systems and tuning relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, using tools such as Datadog or Prometheus.
• Strong software engineering or scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, Scala, or shell, plus experience owning ambiguous cross-functional problems and communicating trade-offs clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience improving developer productivity and developer experience.
• Experience building self-service tooling or reusable platform abstractions.
• Interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
• Experience in a security standards-compliant environment such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-171, or SOC 2.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global organization focused on building trust in cryptocurrencies and blockchain intelligence.
• AI is integrated into working practices, with expectations around experimentation, ownership, and quality.
• Collaborate across engineering, security, cost optimization, and developer productivity functions.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and accessible interview accommodations.