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title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer - APAC (Platform & Reliability) at Blockstream'
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# Senior DevOps Engineer - APAC (Platform & Reliability) at Blockstream

- **Company:** Blockstream
- **Location:** APAC
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockstream/8d562d06-9708-4a5c-b74a-d6e672b8f308

## Job description

[Blockstream](https://blockstream.com/) was founded in 2014 by [Dr. Adam Back](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 handoffs
- After onboarding and shadowing, participate in 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; improve alert quality, SLOs, runbooks, and post-incident actions
- Operate stateful services and recovery mechanisms, including 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 using Python, Go, Bash, or similar tools
- Review infrastructure changes and collaborate asynchronously with engineers across APAC, Europe, and North America

What 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 experience
- Strong Kubernetes and cloud-platform experience; production GCP/GKE experience is preferred
- 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, with strong documentation and asynchronous handoff habits
- Ability to work the published APAC schedule and participate in the defined on-call rotation

Nice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):

- 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

🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All 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 hr@blockstream.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams [here](https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/05/want-work-home-spot-scams-first).

## About Blockstream

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blockstream builds crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin, offering custody, tokenization, layer-2 scaling, and hardware wallet solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $3.2B valuation as of early 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Cayman Islands, with offices in Bay Area, Los Angeles, Montreal, Victoria, Lugano, Milan, Turin, Melbourne, and Tokyo (remote-friendly globally)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Dr. Adam Back, Erik Svenson, Pieter Wuille, and others

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Bitcoin & digital asset infrastructure, blockchain technology, crypto-financial services
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises, exchanges, financial institutions) and B2C (individuals using wallet & hardware)
- **Mission**: “To create the financial infrastructure of the future” – accelerating Bitcoin adoption and expanding its usability for peer-to-peer, open-network finance.

## Products & Services
- **[Blockstream App & Green Wallet](https://blockstream.com/)**: Self-custodial Bitcoin and Liquid wallet app for mobile and desktop.
- **[Blockstream Jade / Jade Plus](https://blockstream.com/)**: Open-source hardware wallet for secure self-custody of Bitcoin and Liquid assets.
- **[Liquid Network](https://blockstream.com/)**: Bitcoin layer-2 sidechain for faster, confidential asset issuance and settlement.
- **[Core Lightning (CLN)](https://blockstream.com/)**: A scalable, open-source implementation of the Lightning Network.
- **[Blockstream Enterprise](https://blockstream.com/)**: Enterprise-grade Bitcoin custody, treasury management, and tokenization solutions.
- **[Blockstream Satellite](https://blockstream.com/)**: Bitcoin blockchain broadcast via satellite for areas with limited internet.
- **[Blockstream Asset Management (AMP)](https://blockstream.com/about/)**: Platform for issuing and managing programmable security tokens on Liquid.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $3.2B (unicorn status, early 2025 – [blockstream.com](https://blockstream.com/about/))
- **Total Funding**:
  - Seed: $21M (2014)
  - Series A: $55M
  - Series B: $210M (led by Fulgur Ventures, January 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fulgur Ventures, plus partnerships with major cryptocurrency exchanges and trading desks for Liquid Network.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Raised $210M in Series B in early 2025.
  - Launched Blockstream Asset Management division and two institutional Bitcoin investment funds.
  - Opened a research center in Lugano, Switzerland (Nov 2024).
  - Released Jade Plus hardware wallet (Jan 2025).
  - Acquired Adamant Capital to establish Blockstream Finance.
  - 100+ team members across 10+ global offices.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep Bitcoin-first focus: not a general blockchain company, but specialized in Bitcoin layer-2 (Liquid, Lightning) and self-custody.
- Cutting-edge cryptography & security engineering, including founder Dr. Adam Back’s invention of Hashcash (proof-of-work).
- Open-source ethos: all core products (Jade, Core Lightning, Elements, etc.) are open source, building trust and community contribution.
- “Distributed by design” – satellite and layer-2 solutions reduce reliance on centralized internet infrastructure.
- Long-term R&D investment: Blockstream Research brand and ongoing protocol contributions.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling Bitcoin adoption through layer-2 growth (Lightning, Liquid).
- Expanding institutional services: asset management, custody, and security token issuance.
- Enhancing self-custody hardware (Jade Plus) and wallet user experience.
- Growing global presence with new research centers and offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven (accelerate Bitcoin adoption), open-source, and research-oriented. Emphasis on innovation, execution, and passion for Bitcoin.
- **Work Policy**: Remote-friendly with a global team; also has physical offices in multiple countries. Careers page lists mostly remote roles (e.g., Full-Stack Engineer, Security Architect, QA Engineer, etc.).
- **Perks**: Work alongside “the brightest minds in the industry” – team includes top Bitcoin experts, cryptographers, and engineers.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on mathematics, cryptography, distributed systems, game theory. Products are built from scratch with a strong security-first mindset.
- **Benefits**: Not explicitly detailed, but typical remote-first culture with flexible hours and global collaboration.

## Sources
1. [blockstream.com](https://blockstream.com/)
2. [blockstream.com/about](https://blockstream.com/about/)
3. [blockstream.com/careers](https://blockstream.com/careers/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockstream](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blockstream)
5. [linkedin.com/company/blockstream](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockstream)

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