Building the Future of Crypto 

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team

Core Infrastructure – Data Systems builds and runs the shared data systems that other engineering teams rely on to ship production services safely and quickly, and scale them globally.

We operate technologies such as MariaDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and adjacent tooling with a very high operational bar.

This team is not only responsible for keeping critical systems healthy. We also build the abstractions, guardrails, and automation that let internal teams provision resources, and evolve their data access patterns. We work closely with our internal customers and aim to stay ahead of their needs.

We are hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help us operate and evolve this platform.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who is comfortable owning production-grade stateful systems, writing software to remove toil, improving observability and incident prevention, and partnering directly with other engineers on data-system design and performance.

The opportunity

• Own the reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.

• Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB and other NoSQL databases with tight SLAs.

• Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.

• Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, raise documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.

• Implement, deploy, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational leverage.

• Partner closely w