Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Senior Associate, Exchange Operations

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $72,600 - $145,200 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Execute and validate configuration changes across spot, futures, and margin product
  • Ensure all changes follow defined approval flows, version control, and documentation standards
  • Monitoring exchange health and responding to alerts in real time
  • Perform first-line incident triage and escalation to engineering when required
  • Support post-incident analysis, documentation and remediation tasks
  • Perform structured readiness checks ahead of changes (configuration diffs, scenario testing)
  • Maintain and improve runbooks, SOPs, checklists, and operational documentation
  • Ideate new admin tools and automation, providing structured feedback to engineering during testing
  • Identify repetitive or error-prone workflows and propose automation opportunities
  • Support Compliance, Finance, Risk, and internal reporting workflows where automation is not yet available
  • Act as a liaison between Operations, Product, Engineering, and Client Support

Requirements

  • Working knowledge of spot, margin, and/or derivatives market mechanics, with the ability to deepen expertise quickly
  • Comfort working with technical systems and internal admin tools
  • Data skills (SQL required)
  • Ability to diagnose issues and communicate clearly under pressure
  • Willingness to participate in shared on-call rotations
  • Proficiency with Python (nice to haves)
  • Experience contributing to internal tooling or designing automation workflows (nice to haves)
  • Familiarity with regulatory or compliance workflows in crypto or financial markets (nice to haves)
Benefits
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonconfiguration managementincident triageautomation workflowsscenario testingdata analysisdocumentation standardsversion controlmonitoring
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingtime managementability to work under pressurefeedback provisionliaison skills