
Senior Associate, Exchange Operations
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $72,600 - $145,200 per year
Job Level
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
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