Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - Platforms Orchestration

About Kraken

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!

The Team

Join our Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team and start playing a vital role in managing and enhancing Kraken's engineering platform! The Core Infrastructure - Platform team is responsible for managing and applying best practices to our orchestration platform while providing infrastructure support across Engineering.

The Core Infrastructure - Platforms Team at Kraken is dedicated to creating a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure platform that facilitates a continuous approach to our software development practices. Lately, the team has been focusing on providing a self-service platform for engineers to easily access and manage their services in the clusters the team provides, and manages.

Find out more about Core Infrastructure Engineering in our latest engineering blogpost!

The Opportunity

• Extend and automate the existing container orchestration platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Work closely with SREs from different teams to reduce their cognitive load related to the orchestration platform.
• Implement and maintain security best practices for the orchestration platform, ensuring the security and availability of our systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues, as well as provide guidance and support to other team members.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the smooth operation of our critical systems.

Skills You Should HODL

• Strong background in Linux, Networking, and Distributed Systems.
• Significant hands-on experience with Nomad container orchestration platform in a high availability, production environment.
• Hands-on experience with other HashiCorp tools, such as Vault and Consul.
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong security mindset and experience implementing security best practices in a complex environment.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Significant experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Bash.
• Passion for improving processes, products, and the developer experience for engineering teams.
• Knowledgeable about continuous integration and delivery best practices.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Ability to thrive while working independently and remotely in a team-based environment.
• Self-starter, capable of context-switching between various projects, codebases, and concepts.

Additional Information

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.