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Senior Cloud Engineer

Kaleido

Kaleido

Raleigh, NC, USA
Posted on Sep 23, 2024

About Kaleido

Kaleido is the leading enterprise-grade Web3 platform for blockchain and digital assets in the world. Its full-stack infrastructure includes access to all major protocols and chains, 500+ pre-built services and APIs, event streams, wallets, Web3 storage solutions, and more. Founded in 2017 by early pioneers in the blockchain space, Kaleido makes blockchain development radically simple at scale across industries as varied as Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Supply Chains, Media, Entertainment, ESG, the Public Sector, and more.. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the space, Kaleido is poised to transform critical business processes with efficiently deployed NFT marketplaces, digital assets platforms, blockchain as a service, and blockchain consortiums.

The Role

Kaleido is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with a passion for engineering high-scale infrastructure systems using cutting-edge tools and practices. The successful candidate can own end-to-end challenges that span across code, network architecture, and infrastructure. You are also a highly skilled coder who loves to dive deep to solve hard problems and drive scalable implementations. Day to day you will be overseeing a global topology of cloud-based systems including a number of Kubernetes clusters. You will also build Kubernetes operators and other tools to power scale and automation of the Kaleido platform across its core SaaS microservices, web3 blockchain infrastructure, and more.

Key Responsibilities

  • Help oversee and develop the platform and application hosting environment aligning them with business strategies and requirements.
  • Identify and implement development frameworks and technologies, while promoting best-practices.
  • Perform operational engineering for activities that include platform upgrades, patching, monitoring, configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Diagnose problems observed in test/staging/production environments.

Your Experience

  • Desire and ability to communicate with customers and team members.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years working in cloud architecture.
  • 5+ years working with AWS cloud.
  • Ability to work with many languages including, but not limited to, NodeJS, Go, Python, and Angular.
  • Ability to identify and address key engineering decision points.
  • Flexible approach to working, including on-call responsibilities.
  • Previously has built a cloud SaaS.
  • Experience using Kubernetes on top of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience using cloud-native monitoring tools, such as Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, DataDog, etc.

What We Value

  • Strong sense of ownership—pride in building robust, scalable systems.
  • A highly collaborative attitude, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving requirements.
  • Enthusiasm for continual learning, process improvement, and innovation.
  • Fluency in test automation and continuous integration best practices