About the company
Kraken, the trusted and secure digital asset exchange, is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Our 2,350+ Krakenites are a world-class team ranging from the crypto-curious to industry experts, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. As a fully remote company, we already have Krakenites in 70+ countries (speaking 50+ languages). We're one of the most diverse organizations on the planet and this remains key to our values. We continue to lead the industry with new product advancements like Kraken NFT, on- and off-chain staking and instant bitcoin transfers via the Lightning Network.
Job Summary
The Opportunity
📍Own and operate Kraken’s Core Infrastructure Platform, supporting a highly resilient, low-latency, distributed exchange environment across on-prem and cloud. 📍Deliver, monitor, and support staging and production systems in a 24/7 environment. 📍Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the reliability and availability of mission-critical systems. 📍Design, build, and maintain infrastructure tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms to improve developer velocity and autonomy. 📍Lead migrations across cloud and on-prem environments and drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). 📍Manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad) and service deployments. 📍Implement infrastructure security best practices to ensure availability, integrity, and compliance. 📍Operate and optimize distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB) and ingress infrastructure (proxies, CDNs), troubleshooting performance and reliability issues in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Skills you should HODL
đź“Ť5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or backend infrastructure engineering roles. đź“Ť3+ years programming in Rust, Golang, or Python. đź“ŤStrong expertise in AWS and cloud infrastructure architecture. đź“ŤDeep experience with Docker and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes or Nomad). đź“ŤHands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and related tooling (e.g., Vault, Consul, Salt). đź“ŤStrong monitoring and observability experience (Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Splunk, AlertManager).
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