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<p>KAIO is building a blockchain protocol to eliminate inefficiencies in legal, financial, and operational workflows for private markets.</p> <p>We go beyond simple tokenisation by enabling seamless, on-chain access to private market assets across platforms and public networks. Our core product focuses on the tokenisation of investment funds using blockchain infrastructure, laying the foundation for composable digital securities integrated with institutional services such as collateralised lending, custody, and secondary trading.</p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">The Role</span></p> <p>We are seeking a Senior platform engineer who owns the foundation that makes continuous delivery possible. In a DevOps organization, platform is not a support function — it is what allows product teams to ship with confidence.</p> <p>You will own cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, security posture, release quality, and incident response. The scope is broad by design. We are a startup and priorities shift. What matters is that you can reason from first principles and adapt without losing rigor.</p> <p>This is a senior, hands-on role suited for someone who has owned applications end-to-end and is comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-moving, technically demanding environment.</p> <p>If you need detailed task lists to know what to work on, this role is not a fit.</p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">What You Own</span></p> <ul> <li>Cloud architecture and infrastructure as code</li> <li>CI/CD pipelines, environments, and release quality gates</li> <li>Security controls embedded across the SDLC — not bolted on after</li> <li>Observability that informs real decisions</li> <li>Incident response, runbooks, and post-mortems</li> <li>Architecture health and technical debt — identifying it, documenting it, driving resolution</li> <li>Disaster recovery planning and testing</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">What We're Looking For</span></p> <ul> <li>5+ years running production cloud systems in startup or scale-up environments</li> <li>Strong fundamentals: networking, distributed systems, infrastructure economics</li> <li>Hands-on with infrastructure as code and major cloud platforms</li> <li>Comfortable owning incident response end to end</li> <li>Experience embedding security into pipelines, not after them</li> <li>Opinionated — and able to defend your opinions clearly</li> </ul> <p>Blockchain or DeFi experience is a plus. Strong systems thinking is required.</p> <p><br></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">How We Work</span></p> <ul> <li>Engineers are trusted to own their domain end-to-end</li> <li>Healthy debate and disagreement are expected</li> <li>Decisions are documented and revisited as conditions change</li> <li>We optimize for long-term clarity and leverage, not short-term speed</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">What This Role Is Not</span></p> <p>This is not a role for:</p> <ul> <li>Engineers who follow patterns without understanding them</li> <li>People who avoid technical friction to keep the peace</li> <li>Engineers who priorities technical elegance over real-world security and reliability</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold">What We Offer</span></p> <ul> <li>Competitive salary and benefits</li> <li>Opportunity to solve complex, high-impact problems in blockchain and private markets</li> <li>High autonomy and ownership — you will shape core protocol decisions</li> <li>A fully remote, collaborative, and intellectually honest engineering culture</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p><br><hr><div class="fabric-5qovnk-root MuiBox-root css-witlqh" data-fabric-component="Flex"><div class="fabric-5qovnk-root MuiBox-root css-1phs5iq" data-fabric-component="Flex"><div class="fabric-2lfz5e-root MuiBox-root css-jipda8" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-v3bc9l-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Location</p></div><div class="fabric-15808a6-root MuiBox-root css-4cxybv" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-958q8r-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Remote</p></div><hr class="MuiDivider-root fabric-jcid1o-root MuiDivider-fullWidth MuiBox-root css-40h3v3" data-fabric-component="Divider"></div><div class="fabric-5qovnk-root MuiBox-root css-1phs5iq" data-fabric-component="Flex"><div class="fabric-2lfz5e-root MuiBox-root css-jipda8" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-v3bc9l-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Department</p></div><div class="fabric-15808a6-root MuiBox-root css-4cxybv" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-958q8r-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Senior Leadership</p></div><hr class="MuiDivider-root fabric-jcid1o-root MuiDivider-fullWidth MuiBox-root css-40h3v3" data-fabric-component="Divider"></div><div class="fabric-5qovnk-root MuiBox-root css-1phs5iq" data-fabric-component="Flex"><div class="fabric-2lfz5e-root MuiBox-root css-jipda8" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-v3bc9l-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Employment Type</p></div><div class="fabric-15808a6-root MuiBox-root css-4cxybv" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-958q8r-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Contractor</p></div><hr class="MuiDivider-root fabric-jcid1o-root MuiDivider-fullWidth MuiBox-root css-40h3v3" data-fabric-component="Divider"></div><div class="fabric-5qovnk-root MuiBox-root css-1phs5iq" data-fabric-component="Flex"><div class="fabric-2lfz5e-root MuiBox-root css-jipda8" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-v3bc9l-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Minimum Experience</p></div><div class="fabric-15808a6-root MuiBox-root css-4cxybv" data-fabric-component="LayoutBox"><p class="fabric-958q8r-root" data-fabric-component="BodyText">Senior Manager/Supervisor</p></div><hr class="MuiDivider-root fabric-jcid1o-root MuiDivider-fullWidth MuiBox-root css-40h3v3" data-fabric-component="Divider"></div></div>

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